Algolia

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Algolia, Inc.
Company type
Private
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GenreSearch and index
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
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Area served
Worldwide
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  • Bernadette Nixon (CEO)
  • Xavier Grand (CTO)
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Websitealgolia.com

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Algolia is a French proprietary search-as-a-service platform, with its headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Paris and London. Its main product is a web search platform for individual websites.

Company

Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, both originally from Paris, France.[1][2] It was originally a company focused on offline search on mobile phones. Later it was selected to be part of Y Combinator's Winter 2014 class.[3][2]

Starting with two data centers in Europe and the US, Algolia opened a third center in Singapore in March 2014,[4] and as of 2019, claimed to be present in over 70 data centers across 16 worldwide regions.[5] It serves roughly 18,000+ customers, handling over 1.75+ Trillion searches a year.[6] In May 2015, Algolia received $18.3M in a series A investment from a financial group led by Accel Partners,[7] and in 2017 a $53M series B investment, also led by Accel Partners.[8] From June 2016 to September 2019, the usage of Algolia by small websites increased from 632 to 5,168 in the "top 1 million websites" and 197 in the "top 10k websites" evaluated by Built With.[9]

In January 2021, Algolia acquired Romanian AI and machine learning startup Morphl.[10]

In July 2021, Algolia raised a $150 million Series D funding round and became a unicorn, with a valuation of $2.25 billion.[11]

In September 2022, Algolia acquired Australian search startup company Search.io[12]

Products and technology

The platform provides search as a service, offering web search across a client's website using an externally hosted search engine.[13][14] Although in-site search has long been available from general web search providers such as Google, this is typically done as a subset of general web searching. Algolia's product only indexes their clients' sites. Data for the client site is pushed from the client to Algolia via a RESTful JSON API,[15] then the search box is added to the client's web pages.[16]

API

Algolia provides their search service via various APIs.[17] The Rest API provides basic features of search, analysis and monitoring. There are 10 supported languages and platforms for client usage.

Infrastructure

Algolia documented one attempt to remove all single points of failure in their architecture and proposed a worldwide infrastructure called Distributed Search Network to reply to a search query from any location closer to the source.[18]

The DSN feature allows setting the locations in Algolia's network where the data should be duplicated.[19]

See also

References

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  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sean Michael Kerner (9 September 2022). "Algolia improves site search functionality with Search.io acquisition". venturebeat.com.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leanstack (March 23, 2014). "How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service Product". thenewstack.io.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Josiah Motley (July 29, 2016). "Interview with the CEO of search powerhouse, Algolia". vator.tv.
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  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Julien Lemoine (13 August 2015). "Algolia's Fury Road To A Worldwide API". medium.com.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Under The Hood of Algolia API". blog.leaseweb.com. 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2023-04-29.

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