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Re:Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M by strin on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:11PM (#14515938)
What about search inside enterprise?

This is a place where there are tons of unstructured data: emails, slack, atlassian, code base. Search seems like a useful tool for employees. Permission control is another essential feature.

Re:Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M by gdillon on Thursday June 08, 2017 @02:50PM (#14516220)
Yeah, definitely. It's a product category called, somewhat prosaically, "enterprise search." Algolia's appropriate for this in that we allow you to define data structures on a per-content source basis, and can show the most relevant results for each content source. Usually, enterprise search providers provide lots of out of the box connectors — with us, you'd just shove JSON into the proper index using one of the API clients.

Security is super important, but we can provide encryption-at-rest and have a secured API key [1] feature that allows you to segment your user base.

[1] - https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/security/api-keys/#secure...

Re:Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M by elevendy on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:33PM (#14518022)
Algolia isn't in this space, but there are definitely companies that are solving this. Swiftype comes to mind.

https://swiftype.com/