AI Recommendations

Suggestions that delight

Use behavioral cues to suggest items and content to your users anywhere on their journey

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A richer user journey

Inspire undecided visitors

No matter where your users are in their journey, AI Recommendations drives higher site engagement and cart/conversion metrics. 

Algolia’s AI surfaces personal recommendations in a smart carousel, to match user affinities. Advanced filters let you apply more granular preferences at a user or customer segment level.

Drive cross sell with AI Recommendations

Maximize catalog exposure and drive cross-sell

A seamless integration with your backend CMS and product catalogs will help expose the full breadth of your products or content to users throughout their journey.

Drive cross sell with AI Recommendations

Get insights to build recommendations

Build better experiences with deep insights into your customers. Understand the performance and impact of your Recommendations carousels, with metrics such as click-through rates, conversion & revenue analytics.

Precise recommendation models and tools

Frequently Bought Together

Drive cross-sales and increase average cart value by showing your shoppers products that complement their current selection.

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A new AI model that understands the images in your index and finds related items, without any need for events.

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Whether an item is unavailable, or a user is looking for inspiration, Algolia’s AI model compares images to your index in real time, to find related items.

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Use Algolia’s AI capabilities to go beyond recommendations based on customer segment, to 1:1 marketing based on context and behavior signals.

More than 17,000 customers in 150+ countries trust Algolia

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The one-stop shop for AI search

Easy to use

Implement our APIs in minutes and gain easy control over rankings.

Fast

Search as quick as you type, with the fastest enterprise AI search we know of.

Scalable

Work with a partner who handles 30 billion records and nearly 1.7 trillion searches a year with 99.999% availability.

Addressing a wide range of industries

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Create personalized, flexible ecommerce Search & Discovery experiences your shoppers will love.

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Index your catalog, put it in motion for your buyers. Increase conversion.

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Build performant search experiences at scale while reducing engineering time.

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Index your content, put it in motion for your users.

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Increase user retention with fast and relevant search, powered by Algolia’s Search API.

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Solutions for multiple use-cases

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Rich product- and content-based customer experiences in a headless ecommerce framework.

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AI Recommendations FAQs

  • Really fast. Most recommendation requests will take from 1 to 20 milliseconds to process.

  • Under the hood recommendations rely on supervised machine learning models and the Algolia foundation.

    For both models, the data corresponding to the past 30 days is collected. This results in a matrix where columns are userTokens and rows are objectIDs. Each cell represents the number of interactions (click and/or conversions) between a userToken and an objectID. Then, Algolia Recommend applies a collaborative filtering algorithm: for each item, it finds other items that share similar buying patterns across customers. Items would be considered similar if the same users set interacted with them. Items would be considered bought together if the same set of users bought them.

  • Getting recommendations is a four-step process:

    1. Capture your users’ conversion events
    2. Send your data to Algolia
    3. Train the models with the push of a button
    4. Add recommendations to your UI
  • Our recommendation engine is language-agnostic: it supports alphabet-based and symbol-based languages (such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean).

  • Essentially a recommendation engine will analyse interactions of users with different items to draw links between those items. Deep dive here.

  • An example of a recommendation engine is a product recommendation engine for ecommerce. It will analyse what products shoppers buy together or what products shoppers interact with in a short amount of time, to generate “Frequently Bought Together” or “Related Products” recommendations. Learn more here!

  • The key components of a high-performance recommender system are: Data Sources, Feature Store, Machine Learning Models, Predictions & Actions, Results & Metrics. More details in this dedicated series.

  • The best way to improve a recommendation engine is to make sure you’re feeding it qualitative data: user interactions and items. Additionally there are filters that you can apply to the recommendations that are being generated. Ultimately, key performance indicators must be accurately tracked in order to identify areas of improvement.

  • The most obvious operational goal of using a personalized recommender system is to recommend items that are relevant to the user, as people are more likely to buy items they find attractive. Learn more about personalized recommendations and their benefits here!

  • Content-based recommendations are based solely on items’ descriptions. Personalized recommendations are also based on user’s interactions and each user will see a different set of recommendations, depending on their individual preferences. Learn more here!