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Re:Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service by wtvanhest on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:45PM (#21277382)
This is correct. Lets say you have an ecom site with product search. How do you know if the search is good? You search for stuff and compare to what you expect.

Even if it sucks, as long as their is revenue lift, you will keep it until the next solution comes along.

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Re:Algolia raises $110M for its search-as-a-service by briandear on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:43PM (#21278481)
And Algolia has great analytics, so you can actually mesure business value from actual search queries: you can tie a query to a purchase and then run further analysis on that. It’s powerful and doesn’t require any exceptional engineering talent to use.
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