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Craft a unique discovery experience with AI-powered recommendations
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Craft a unique discovery experience with AI-powered recommendations

Algolia’s Recommend complements site search and discovery. As customers browse or search your site, dynamic recommendations encourage customers to ...

Maria Lungu

Frontend Engineer

How AI is transforming merchandising from reactive to proactive
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How AI is transforming merchandising from reactive to proactive

In the fast-paced and dynamic realm of digital merchandising, being reactive to customer trends has been the norm. In ...

Lorna Rivera

Staff User Researcher

Mobile search done right: Common pitfalls and best practices
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Mobile search done right: Common pitfalls and best practices

Did you know that 86% of the global population uses a smartphone? The 7 billion devices connected to the Internet ...

Alexandre Collin

Staff SME Business & Optimization - UI/UX

What are semantic keywords?
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What are semantic keywords?

When searching an app or a website, do you know what you really want? When you’re typing a word ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

What is latent semantic indexing (analysis) and how can it bolster search?
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What is latent semantic indexing (analysis) and how can it bolster search?

You say “sweats”, someone else say “joggers”. He says “fifth wheel”, she says “camper”, your neighbor says “RV”. Some people ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Semantics: Definition, examples, and relevance within the search industry
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Semantics: Definition, examples, and relevance within the search industry

“Let’s not get bogged down in semantics.” Like wisdom-spouting Homer Simpson, you’ve maybe said — or heard ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

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Mobile search UX best practices, part 3: Optimizing display of search results
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Mobile search UX best practices, part 3: Optimizing display of search results

In part 1 of this blog-post series, we looked at app interface design obstacles in the mobile search experience ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Mobile search UX best practices, part 2: Streamlining search functionality
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Mobile search UX best practices, part 2: Streamlining search functionality

In part 1 of this series on mobile UX design, we talked about how designing a successful search user experience ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Mobile search UX best practices, part 1: Understanding the challenges
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Mobile search UX best practices, part 1: Understanding the challenges

Welcome to our three-part series on creating winning search UX design for your mobile app! This post identifies developer ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

How to use guided search to manage choice overload
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How to use guided search to manage choice overload

By the end of this post you will know why most sites find it very difficult to design navigation and ...

Matthew Foyle

Solutions Engineer @ Algolia

How semantic search can deliver knowledge and answer questions
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How semantic search can deliver knowledge and answer questions

Search has come a long way. We used to Press Enter in blind faith, hoping we’d find our treasure ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG): how to make site search work for people with disabilities
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Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG): how to make site search work for people with disabilities

Is your website and app search functionality accessible to the estimated 1 billion adults around the world who are living ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

The right AI tools to build great search experiences

Algolia AI optimizes your entire Search and Discovery experience growing your business with far less manual tuning.Algolia AI is tightly integrated into a comprehensive Search and Discovery management platform so you can always make the final decision.

Mobile apps and mobile app search: the past, present, and future
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Mobile apps and mobile app search: the past, present, and future

Social networking, food delivery, payments, games, music, exercise, airlines…there seems to be an app for just about everything, whether ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Auto suggest: best practices for autocomplete suggestion
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Auto suggest: best practices for autocomplete suggestion

Can you take a hint? How about an autocomplete suggestion in a search box? More to the point, if you ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

How leveraging search analytics can boost user engagement and ROI
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How leveraging search analytics can boost user engagement and ROI

Have you ever wished you could read your customers’ minds to find out what they want or need? Of course ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

Faceted Search: An Overview
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Faceted Search: An Overview

What is faceted search? Facets, also called smart filters, are a type of search filter that customers use to narrow ...

Jon Silvers

Director, Digital Marketing

How does autocomplete maximize the power of search?
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How does autocomplete maximize the power of search?

We finish each other’s... sentences search results. Want a partner who knows what you’re thinking and can complete ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

How can related product recommendations boost engagement and ROI?
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How can related product recommendations boost engagement and ROI?

Let’s say winter is coming and you need a new coat. Something warm. Something sleek. Something totally you, like ...

Catherine Dee

Search and Discovery writer

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