Algolia

Adding search and product recommendations to a website or app is the job Algolia handles. Algolia is a search and discovery platform with an API that developers use to build search experiences for their own sites and apps, rather than a ready-made widget you just switch on.

The platform includes NeuralSearch, Keyword Search and Recommend, so you can pick between plain keyword matching, AI-based search and suggested items depending on what the product needs.

Algolia targets several kinds of businesses: B2C ecommerce, B2B ecommerce, marketplaces, media and SaaS.

That spread tells you where its examples and tooling are likely to be strongest, which is catalog and content search where speed and relevance affect whether people find what they came for.

It also sits in the AI developer tools and AI API space, so the audience is builders who want to wire search into code.

If you need an AI search engine for your own product and have engineers to implement it, Algolia is a sensible candidate to evaluate.