Autocomplete search suggestions

Guide your users with personalized search autocomplete

Provide accurate suggestions with Autocomplete by leveraging your users' search queries and data.

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Personalized search autocomplete.

A superior autocomplete search technology

With Algolia’s autocomplete functionality, users generate new, relevant autocomplete predictions with every keystroke. Our autocomplete feature lets them stop typing in the search field, and from the dropdown, select what they’re seeking, with the result being a better, more interactive search process and user experience.

Personalized and accurate autocomplete suggestions.

Precise auto-suggest recommendations

Autocomplete suggestions help searchers by offering longer queries below the text box based on what they start typing as a partial query. People who use autocomplete get suggestions that are more precise. That precision, in turn, produces more-accurate results so the searcher can more efficiently select the web page, content, or products they’re seeking. 

App and mobile search autocomplete.

Increase user satisfaction with mobile autocomplete

With autocomplete search, you reduce the number of keystrokes needed for on-the-go users to enter in their iOS or Android mobile devices. Less time typing and trying to avoid typos in a user interface on a mini screen means more time finding the right results. As an online retailer or informational site, you can increase engagement and optimize your user experience with stellar, fast mobile search.

Autocomplete that leverages search history to develop personalized suggestions.

Personalized autocomplete functionality

You can always show your users popular searches. One step better: leverage search history. With Algolia Personalization, you can provide an individual level of relevance on the autocomplete list of suggestions shown to each user based on their expressed interests, gleaned from their previous search terms and enrichment data. 

Mine all your data sources

Query Suggestions works with multiple autocomplete data sources in order to always provide the best auto-suggest queries to your users. 

Base search autocomplete suggestions on your available catalog.

Tailor autocomplete suggestions to what’s in your catalog

To help users access the information, content, or products they need fast, Query Suggestions analyzes your indices, including the attributes for filtering and faceting, so you can provide search suggestions for the right content category (and never point to a no-results page).

Suggestions are based on user search queries and behavior.

Learn from users’ search queries

Suggested queries are generated and ranked based on what your users search for and how they use the autocomplete function to refine their searches. This data is updated daily. And when you combine use of auto-suggest with our Personalization product, suggestions are further refined based on each user’s affinities and profile.

Integrate analytics platform data with search autocomplete functionality.

Tap your trove of data

You can pull in Google Analytics or use your other external analytics tool of choice to further refine your auto-suggest feature to meet user needs, giving them the quality of autofill results they’d get from doing an Amazon or Google search.

Configure to your needs

You can fine-tune Query Suggestions for your key use-case scenarios.

Use rules to boost specific autocomplete suggestions.

Upgrade your merchandise suggestions

You can use rules to boost specific suggestions in your autocomplete search feature, such as for trending items on your e-commerce sites. Another option: displaying banners in rich autocomplete for specific keywords or contexts. Plus, you can create synonyms to give users the best autocomplete options with related keywords, even if they enter search terms that aren’t in your catalog in the search box.

Remove unwanted queries from appearing in search auto-suggestions.

Eliminate problematic keywords

You can ban any keywords that you don’t want appearing in suggested user queries. Query Suggestions also takes this a step further and ignores multiple repeated similar queries from the same IP address.

Advanced settings for granular autocomplete query suggestion manipulation.

Control advanced functionality

Take charge of your granular query-suggestion settings, including which attributes to show in users’ text search suggestions, the minimum number of characters required in the text field for a suggestion to be surfaced, and more.

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Algolia Autocomplete FAQs

  • The Query Suggestions builder normalizes and completes suggestions to remove suggestions that are duplicated, similar, or have a prefix.

    You can also customize a set of configurable constraints that disqualifies search terms from your suggestion index. If a suggestion matches any of these criteria, it’s not included as a search term:

    • It contains non-alphanumeric characters
    • It doesn’t meet the minimum number of results (five by default) configured when querying a given source index
    • It’s not long enough (four letters by default)
    • It matches any banned expressions (suggestions the builder will never include, regardless of popularity)

    Top searches from the Analytics API are aggregated, but the builder goes further. Here’s a good example: if tablets, Tabl, Tablets and tablet are top searches in your source index, the builder would narrow the specification to the term with the most searches.

    It’s also a good idea to correctly designate the language, as well as remove irrelevant and inappropriate searches by configuring the banned expressions.

  • The builder rebuilds the index once every 24 hours, or whenever you change and save its configuration. Query Suggestions takes into account data items in the last 30 days, and the index is based on a sliding window of the most recent analytics data. When calculating suggestion popularity, searches made earlier in the 30-day period don’t count less than those made more recently.