If you have never used Algolia, I'd recommend doing so. For any reason.
They are one of those great companies that you want to emulate, their entire setup is polished and perfect.
They are one of those great companies that you want to emulate, their entire setup is polished and perfect.
I created an Algolia account once with my personal github account, just for testing purposes. Starting the next day and continuing for a few weeks, I received a stream of emails from their sales people requesting times to schedule phone calls, and telling me how much they can help my company. I had no idea how they knew which company I worked for until I checked my linkedin and found Algoia people were visiting my profile. They have some seriously stalkerish sales practices.
Totally agree that sales teams can overreach though. Perhaps there should be a little “why are you signing up? Personal/work/etc” quiz when you sign up, then emails reduced accordingly.
Using Algolia in a full-page-load HTML request is using a Ferrari do drive to the grocery store. You can, but what a waste
Algolia also implemented a linkedin contact search infinitely superior to Linkedin own search.
I remember thinking that both demos were really brilliant growth strategy because it showed clearly, by contrast, how much the status quo was painful
There is no way to search across multiple comments on the same "story"; I use Google site search for this.
It only counts replies/"comments" for stories, not comments (which would probably be a lot more work).
It differentiates between plural and singular search terms as very different searches.
The only ranking options are by popularity and date (would like to be able to sort results by number of replies too).