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Friday, 21 July, 2017 UTC
Introducing InstantSearch iOS: Create Great Search UX with Swift and Objective-C
We’re excited today to be releasing InstantSearch iOS, a library of views and helpers for building a great search experience on iOS. It is built on top of Algolia’s Swift API Client to give iOS developers a way to quickly build a search experience that ... moreWednesday, 5 July, 2017 UTC
Connectors, Docs & the Future — a Deeper Look into InstantSearch.js v2
Back in November 2015, we released InstantSearch.js v1 in order to give you an efficient way to build search UIs. We have received good feedback so far: 1600+ GitHub stars, 600+ upvotes on Product Hunt, and 1700+ live implementations and counting. Over ... moreWednesday, 7 June, 2017 UTC
Building for developers—a tour of new features and resources in 2017
New API features, libraries, dashboard upgrades and community tools have been rolling out this year at a steady pace. In case you missed anything, I’m here to give you a panoramic look at what Algolia has made available to developers since the year began. ... moreTuesday, 18 April, 2017 UTC
Small but impactful search UX tips for mobile web
As part of our annual tradition of giving a gift to the community, these past few weeks I was part of the team working to implement search inside of Yarn. During that time, I noticed some small quick-wins that could make our search boxes better, and ... moreWednesday, 5 April, 2017 UTC
How we built the real demo for our fake CSS API client
On March 31st, we announced our CSS API Client, that replicated a search engine with only CSS. While it was only a joke in the spirit of April Fool’s, it was a lot of fun to make, and also a lot of fun to see it in the wild. I’ve always been fascinated ... moreFriday, 31 March, 2017 UTC
Goodbye JavaScript: Introducing our CSS API Client
At Algolia, we are always pushing the boundaries of search. Today is an important day for us as it marks the official release of our 11th API Client: the CSS API Client. CSS is an awesome language. It only takes you a few years of practice to be able ... moreTuesday, 28 March, 2017 UTC
InstantSearch Android: Optimized Search Components for Android
We’re excited today to be releasing InstantSearch Android , a library of Views and helpers to help you build the best instant search experience on Android. It is built on top of Algolia’s Android API Client to give Android developers a powerful solution ... moreMonday, 13 March, 2017 UTC
A search inside a search: how we brought Inception to Algolia
Facets are a key feature for a search engine. A facet is a way to filter the data by a specific value on an attribute – a good example of a facet is “brands” in an ecommerce website. With Algolia, each set of results for a search query contains the most ... moreFriday, 3 March, 2017 UTC
Picking up where Google Site Search left off
Recently Google has decided to sunset Google Site Search (GSS), their paid service for powering search inside of websites. The service will cease on April 1st 2018 and stop active development on April 1st 2017. Algolia helps product teams create lightning ... moreMonday, 6 February, 2017 UTC
With Algolia Offline, Take your Search Bar Everywhere.
Mobile apps are everywhere, occupying an ever-growing part of our daily lives. Ironically, this pervasiveness has taken apps to areas where network coverage is still not that great: public transport, underground areas, big malls… or outside big cities. ... moreWednesday, 1 February, 2017 UTC
Personalized Search at the Speed of Algolia
Search is more than a query and results – search is a conversation your users have with your product. When done right, you feel understood by the engine – and, in turn, the product – which reacts to your needs and adapts to what you’re saying as you’re ... moreThursday, 19 January, 2017 UTC
Solutions Engineers: Advocating for the Customer
We’re the Solutions Engineering team at Algolia. What does that mean exactly? We do a lot of different things, but they’re all tied together by one philosophy: We advocate for the customer inside Algolia. Being a Solutions Engineer requires flexibility ... moreThursday, 8 December, 2016 UTC
Harnessing API’s with React: a different approach
Today we are launching react-instantsearch, a new library to build search interfaces with Algolia in React and React native. This new way of implementing Algolia brings ideas that go beyond the creation of widgets using React – we think they will fundamentally ... moreMonday, 21 November, 2016 UTC
Inside the engine part 6 – Handling synonyms the right way
In any search engine, adding synonyms is one of the most important customization to introduce domain-specific knowledge. Synonyms make it possible to tune search results without having to make major changes to records. Supporting synonyms is no easy ... moreThursday, 10 November, 2016 UTC
How we tackled internationalization in our Zendesk integration
Zendesk customers are worldwide, reaching users in even more countries. It’s no surprise that their Help Centers support multiple languages out-of-the-box. When we launched our Algolia for Zendesk integration , it shipped with English support by default, ... moreWednesday, 28 September, 2016 UTC
Unveiling Algolia’s WordPress search plugin – blog search at the speed of thought
Today we are very excited to announce our Search by Algolia plugin for WordPress which will bring relevancy, instant search and autocomplete capabilities to almost 30% of the internet which is powered by WordPress. We believe that every website or blog, ... moreThursday, 25 August, 2016 UTC
Search Party recap: 60+ attendees, 10 projects, 1 “magnificent” photo booth
Several weeks ago we welcomed a group of Algolia developers, customers and partners into our SF office to have a conversation about search. It was also an opportunity to say “Hey, thanks for working with us!” Fireside Chat The evening kicked off with ... moreFriday, 5 August, 2016 UTC
Behind the Scenes: Algolia Places
All of us have at some point or the other been stuck in the middle of nowhere, desperately trying to locate an address, with our “fat fingers” for company; or abandoned a purchase in our virtual shopping baskets because it was too much trouble to fill ... moreThursday, 28 July, 2016 UTC
Algolia (and Burgers) at PolyConf
Have you ever had a conversation with your friends which goes something like this? You: Let’s go grab some burgers for dinner tonight! Friend 1: Not burgers, anything else is fine. Friend 2: Thai? You: Meh Us too. Food is something we’re very passionate ... moreFriday, 15 July, 2016 UTC
DocSearch: 150 sites, 75k searches per day
In December 2015 we released DocSearch, an easy way to make your software or API documentation searchable. Fast forward 6 months later and DocSearch is powering the documentation behind 150 projects including React, Symfony, Play framework and Meteor. ... moreTuesday, 12 July, 2016 UTC
How we reduced boilerplate and handled asynchronous actions with Redux
At Algolia, we do a lot of front-end JavaScript, because for us UX and UI are key components of a great search – we want the search experience to be perfect across the entire stack. Recently, we’ve been playing quite a lot with React in our projects, ... moreWednesday, 15 June, 2016 UTC
Introducing Algolia Places
Today we’re excited to release Algolia Places, a fast and easy way to turn any HTML input into an address autocomplete. See it live • Read the docs One of our core missions at Algolia is to improve search-related user experiences . Address forms were ... moreWednesday, 1 June, 2016 UTC
Our Post Mortem of the DNS DDoS which took place on Monday May 16th
Milliseconds and transparency matter at Algolia- both inside and outside our company. So we thought we’d share the details and our post mortem of the DNS DDoS incident which took place on Monday, May 16. It all started when we received an alert from ... moreMonday, 16 May, 2016 UTC
Search your knowledge base quickly and easily with Algolia for Zendesk
We’re excited to announce the release of our new Zendesk integration as a part of our community package. This integration adds as-you-type search to your help center in just a few clicks and can be integrated at no cost. Why do you need a help center? ... moreThursday, 4 February, 2016 UTC
Find every commercial ever aired during the Big Game with Algolia SuperSearch
Algolia HQ is in San Francisco, so it’s been pretty impossible to escape the Super Bowl mania sweeping the city. (If only they also actually swept the city.) Once we got over our slight annoyance with all the street closures because of the Super Bowl ... moreWednesday, 27 January, 2016 UTC
Building a better iStyles shopping experience with Algolia search
iStyles, a fashion accessories provider for consumer electronics, boasts more than 200K products and 1600 designs, as well as support for over 800 devices. With the already large and constantly growing number of products offered, iStyles needs their ... moreTuesday, 5 January, 2016 UTC
How we updated our JS libs for React Native
Our mission at Algolia is to make sure that every website or app has the best search experience possible. That’s why we have created several clients for iOS (in Swift and objective-C), Android, Windows/C# and JavaScript. But we’re always looking for ... moreWednesday, 25 November, 2015 UTC
How Algolia keeps all your data safe but searchable on Solid
In today’s world of easily accessible data, privacy is key. But protecting data is often a manual and expensive process requiring extensive planning. Solid, an app designed to help you run easy and effective meetings, faces a unique struggle when it ... moreFriday, 20 November, 2015 UTC
Announcing instantsearch.js: Everything you need for great search in one library
We’re very excited to announce the launch of instantsearch.js , our new library of UI widgets to help you build the best instant-search experience with Algolia’s hosted search API. So how does this library change search? Our mission at Algolia is to ... moreTuesday, 3 November, 2015 UTC
