Algolia: Highly personalized Search & Discover API

Algolia in a few words

Algolia is an AI-powered API platform for Search & Discovery empowering brands and companies with the Search, Discovery, and Recommendation services they need to build, power, and optimize world-class leading UX across platforms.

Algolia, with its hosted search engine accessible through powerful APIs, enables companies and brands to easily implement efficient, flexible, and insightful search and discovery experiences in any area of their websites and applications.

As a Member of the MACH® Alliance, Algolia advocates for an open, best-of-breed, future-proof enterprise technology ecosystem to propel current and future digital experiences.

According to Forrester Consulting’s Total Economic Impact (TEI) study, Algolia delivers between 3X to 10X ROI to enterprises deploying its search and discovery platform. It cannot be a coincidence that Algolia’s Search APIs are powering billions of queries for thousands of companies every month, delivering relevant results in under 50ms anywhere in the world.

Let’s discover why Algolia is considered the most modern and flexible tool for delivering at scale personalized and relevant shopping experiences able to boost conversion rates by 30%+.

Algolia API Platform features

Completely different from other Search solutions - being them Custom-built ones or “turnkey” solutions - the Algolia hosted Search & Discovery platform, thanks to its powerful APIs, delivers full-control and white-box visibility, beyond being quick and easy to deploy, iterate and scale at any time. Two are the main functionalities for building and delivering omnichannel experiences and begin getting fast results for continuous optimization and ROI maximization:

Algolia Search

Simple and robust Search APIs - beyond a full set of developers tools - allow to compose any search experiences on any kind of website, eCommerce, application, portal, Intranet, and even SaaS product.

The intuitive Algolia’s dashboard enables Analyst, Marketing and Sales teams to fully customize, personalize and optimize the Search experiences through immediately actionable insights:

In addition, Algolia’s AI Search capabilities crucially enrich the tool’s potentials for maximizing ROI with continuously expanding capabilities at scale to achieve business goals:

Algolia Recommend

The flexible, hosted recommendation APIs of Algolia allow developers to build applications quickly that automatically show products or digital content to users, subscribers, and shoppers for complementing and refining their selection during their journey.

Applicable for ”Related Products” and “Frequently Bought Together” dynamic carousels, this solution, with its with advanced programmatic control, maximizes conversions and catalog exposure.

+115% of interactions with product recommendations, +150% increase in order rate and +8% in online revenue are amazing results* for a Merchant. Aren’t they?

Algolia capabilities & potentials

Designed with a developer-first approach, Algolia provides extensive tools, packaged innovation and internationalization ready, thus removing the complexity of integrating search in websites and apps.

Algolia benefits

With its powerful hosted Search APIs, Algolia helps businesses refine and optimize dynamic digital experiences for customers and users (expecting always more expansive search) in finding what they’re looking for, faster and showing relevant results.

Cloud based and delivered as a SaaS solution, Algolia is an ever-evolving software supported by 400+ employees & industry-leading support services which is totally focused in All website or application end-users:

Developers

• Freedom of the preferred language usage to prototype ideas quickly
• Build production ready experience in no time thanks to Algolia’s 16 API clients, 9 client libraries, and 5 supported plugins

Business

• Full-text, numerical, and faceted search, capable of delivering real-time results from the first keystroke
• Continuous optimization thanks to immediately actionable insights, a/b tests and analytics results

Customers

• Fast, dynamic & content-rich user journeys
• Results in <50m/s

Algolia’s common use cases

Algolia provides solutions for multiple use cases:

• Headless eCommerce
  Rich-product- and content-based personalized flexible customer experiences in a Headless eCommerce framework across all devices and channels
• Mobile Search
  For creating appreciated mobile search and discovery sessions designed to convert
• Voice Search
  Contextual understanding capabilities, NLP, natural-language understanding, and AI tools

In addition, Algolia’s Search & Discovery advanced experiences can be leveraged in many different industries, such as:

• eCommerce
  Algolia integrates with leading eCommerce platforms (included our partner Adobe Commerce Cloud)
• B2B eCommerce
  Particularly precious in the case of large catalog, Algolia allows to create self-serve and personalized search and navigation experiences for B2B buyers (who increasingly expect a “B2C” experience)
• Media
  Regardless of the provided media types, Algolia media search engine APIs enables companies to surface their content catalog in any front end, whether it’s a customer-facing app or an internal content management system
• Marketplaces
  Algolia is able to connect sellers and buyers with scalable, flexible search, discovery and recommendation APIs, decreasing TCO while increasing revenue
• SaaS
  with Algolia is possible to build powerful software solutions that retain users, such as enabling them to easily retrieve files, contacts, events or any object within the SaaS solution, always handling security, reliability and scalability
• Enterprise & Workplace
  A modern business Search & Discovery approach applied to company Intranet & Knowledge Management System can crucially increase workplace efficiency and employee productivity enabling customers and employees to quickly find right products, content and information with fewer IT resources and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Regarding this Enterprise Search application, in 2022 Algolia has appeared for the 11th consectuive time appearing in the number one slot on G2’s Enterprise Search Grid® which measures a company’s market presence and performance.

S’nce approach to Algolia

As a Digital Agency specialized in designing and implementing complex interactive digital applications, S’nce Group has been an Algolial System Integration partner for 2 years. We support Brands in creating enhanced eCommerce experiences by a CX-driven approach and through API-based and scalable solutions.

We are conscious that - today more than ever - search really matters. Users expect fast and relevant results. Search is quite often the first use’s impression which, if penalized by a bad experience, is expensive for business, beyond being a precious lost opportunity.

Our will is to create real added value for our clients’ business supporting them in achieving their expansion goals at scale by building leading personalized Search and Discovery experiences. And Algolia, thanks to its unparalleled speed and AI capabilities, is the strategic choice for making our customers thrive in the digital-first era.

Our Services

In the last 2 years we have been supporting different companies in leveraging Algolia’s potentials to create leading digital UX across devices powering their search and discovery capabilities and thus driving results across their entire experiences.

As a System Integration Partner, we use to work with complete teams including developers, UX & UI specialists, Commerce specialists, Strategy Analysts, and Project Managers.