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Add InstantSearch and Autocomplete to your search experience in just 5 minutes
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Add InstantSearch and Autocomplete to your search experience in just 5 minutes

A good starting point for building a comprehensive search experience is a straightforward app template. When crafting your application’s ...

Imogen Lovera

Senior Product Manager

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

Why weights are often counterproductive in ranking
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Why weights are often counterproductive in ranking

Search is a very complex problem Search is a complex problem that is hard to customize to a particular use ...

Julien Lemoine

Co-founder & former CTO at Algolia

Removing outliers for A/B search tests
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Removing outliers for A/B search tests

How do you measure the success of a new feature? How do you test the impact? There are different ways ...

Christopher Hawke

Senior Software Engineer

Easily integrate Algolia into native apps with FlutterFlow
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Easily integrate Algolia into native apps with FlutterFlow

Algolia's advanced search capabilities pair seamlessly with iOS or Android Apps when using FlutterFlow. App development and search design ...

Chuck Meyer

Sr. Developer Relations Engineer

Feature Spotlight: Query Suggestions
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Feature Spotlight: Query Suggestions

Your users are spoiled. They’re used to Google’s refined and convenient search interface, so they have high expectations ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

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Algolia DocSearch is now free for all docs sites
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Algolia DocSearch is now free for all docs sites

TL;DR Revamp your technical documentation search experience with DocSearch! Previously only available to open-source projects, we're excited ...

Shane Afsar

Senior Engineering Manager

4 questions to ask for relevant search results
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4 questions to ask for relevant search results

Relevance – it’s what we’re all going for with our search implementations, but it’s so subjective that it ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

Conversational search: an update for 2024
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Conversational search: an update for 2024

Imagine that outer-space colonization has begun and you’re standing on the rusty red soil of Mars. You’re ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

How to add InstantSearch to a site with an unsupported framework (like Jekyll)
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How to add InstantSearch to a site with an unsupported framework (like Jekyll)

Jekyll is an open-source static site generator originally developed by Tom Preston-Werner (the creator of GitHub) as a ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

The guiding principles of InstantSearch
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The guiding principles of InstantSearch

Back in November 2015, we released the first full version of InstantSearch. We’ve received tons of feedback, leading to ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

What is k-means clustering? An introduction
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What is k-means clustering? An introduction

Just as with a school kid who’s left unsupervised when their teacher steps outside to deal with a distraction ...

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.

Feature Spotlight: Synonyms
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Feature Spotlight: Synonyms

Back in May 2014, we added support for synonyms inside Algolia. We took our time to really nail the details ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

Feature Spotlight: Query Rules
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Feature Spotlight: Query Rules

You’re running an ecommerce site for an electronics retailer, and you’re seeing in your analytics that users keep ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

New features and capabilities in Algolia InstantSearch
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New features and capabilities in Algolia InstantSearch

At Algolia, our business is more than search and discovery, it’s the continuous improvement of site search. If you ...

Haroen Viaene

JavaScript Library Developer

Feature Spotlight: Analytics
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Feature Spotlight: Analytics

Analytics brings math and data into the otherwise very subjective world of ecommerce. It helps companies quantify how well their ...

Jaden Baptista

Technical Writer

What is a vector database?
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What is a vector database?

Fashion ideas for guest aunt informal summer wedding Funny movie to get my bored high-schoolers off their addictive gaming ...

Vincent Caruana

Sr. SEO Web Digital Marketing Manager

Unlock the power of image-based recommendation with Algolia’s LookingSimilar
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Unlock the power of image-based recommendation with Algolia’s LookingSimilar

Imagine you're visiting an online art gallery and a specific painting catches your eye. You'd like to find ...

Raed Chammam

Senior Software Engineer

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