Algolia is an American proprietary search-as-a-service platform. Its main product is a web search platform for individual websites.
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| Company type | Private |
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| Genre | Search and index |
| Founded | 10 October 2012  |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 800+ |
| Website | algolia |
Company edit
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 centres 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 11,000+ customers, handling 60 billion user queries per month.[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 Morph.[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]
Products and technology edit
The Algolia model provides search as a service, offering web search across a client's website using an externally hosted search engine.[12][13] 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,[14] then the search box is added to the client's web pages.[15]
API edit
Algolia provides their search service via various APIs.[16] The Rest API provides basic features of search, analysis and monitoring. There are 10 supported languages and platforms for client usage.
Infrastructure edit
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.[17]
The DSN feature allows setting the locations in Algolia's network where the data should be duplicated.[18]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Roland, Sylvain (16 October 2019). "Pourquoi la France a raté Algolia, le "Google français des professionnels" au succès fulgurant" [Why France missed Algolia, the dazzlingly successful "French Google for professionals"]. La Tribune (in French).
- ^ a b Magistretti, Bérénice (8 June 2017). "Powering Twitch and Medium, search startup Algolia raises $53 million". VentureBeat.
- ^ Romain Dillet (21 January 2014). "Algolia Provides 'Spotlight' For The Web With Its Turbocharged Real-Time Search API". techcrunch.com.
- ^ Romain Dillet (21 March 2014). "Algolia Adds Asian Data Center While Taking Over Search On The Web". techcrunch.com.
- ^ "Algolia's website". algolia.com. 11 September 2016.
- ^ Caroline Kunz (July 22, 2016). "How Algolia Uses Wavefront to Keep Its Hosted Search API Instantaneous for 12B+ Queries Monthly". wavefront.com.
- ^ "Algolia Raises $18.3M Series A Investment Led by Accel Partners". builtwith.com. 11 September 2016.
- ^ "Algolia raises $53 million for its search engine API". TechCrunch. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ "Algolia Usage Statistics". builtwith.com. 11 September 2016.
- ^ Sawers, Paul (26 January 2021). "Algolia acquires MorphL to turbocharge 'search-as-a-service' platform with AI". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ "Search API startup Algolia raises $150 million at $2.25 billion valuation". 28 July 2021.
- ^ Leanstack (March 23, 2014). "How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service Product". thenewstack.io.
- ^ Josiah Motley (July 29, 2016). "Interview with the CEO of search powerhouse, Algolia". vator.tv.
- ^ "REST API". algolia.com.
- ^ "How it works". algolia.com.
- ^ "Github". builtwith.com. 11 September 2016.
- ^ Julien Lemoine (13 August 2015). "Algolia's Fury Road To A Worldwide API". medium.com.
- ^ Author, Guest (2015-05-21). "Under The Hood of Algolia API". Leaseweb Blog. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
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