Back
Algolia - Wikipedia
webCredibility Rating
3/5
Good(3)Good quality. Reputable source with community review or editorial standards, but less rigorous than peer-reviewed venues.
Rating inherited from publication venue: Wikipedia
This is a Wikipedia article about Algolia, a search-as-a-service company. It has minimal direct relevance to AI safety, though Algolia's AI/ML acquisitions and search infrastructure could tangentially relate to information retrieval systems used in AI research tools.
Metadata
Importance: 5/100wiki pagereference
Summary
This Wikipedia article describes Algolia, a French search-as-a-service platform founded in 2012, headquartered in San Francisco. It covers the company's history, funding rounds, products, and infrastructure. Algolia provides real-time search APIs for websites and acquired an AI/ML startup in 2021.
Key Points
- •Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, later joining Y Combinator's Winter 2014 class.
- •The platform provides search-as-a-service via RESTful JSON APIs, indexing client sites across a distributed global network.
- •In January 2021, Algolia acquired Romanian AI and machine learning startup Morphl.
- •Algolia raised $150M Series D in July 2021, achieving unicorn status with a $2.25 billion valuation.
- •As of 2019, Algolia operates in over 70 data centers across 16 worldwide regions, handling 1.75+ trillion searches per year.
Cached Content Preview
HTTP 200Fetched Apr 11, 20267 KB
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Search software company
Algolia, Inc. Company type Private Industry Software
Information Technology
Search Engines
Genre Search and index Founded 8 October 2012  Founders Nicolas Dessaigne
Julien Lemoine
Headquarters San Francisco, California , U.S. Area served Worldwide Key people Bernadette Nixon (CEO)
Xavier Grand (CTO)
Services Real-time search
Number of employees 800+ Website algolia .com
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
[ 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 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
[ edit ]
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
[ edit ]
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
[ edit ]
Algolia documented one attempt to remove all single points of failure
... (truncated, 7 KB total)Resource ID:
822f655f5c4de2d0