1.7+ Trillion
searches every year
99.999%
uptime SLA available
382%
ROI according to Forrester Research
17,000+
customers across 150+ countries
Image search
Give users more ways to find what they need
With Algolia’s image search, provide your users with a more multifaceted and modern search experience
Visual recognition with image search and reverse image search
Content-based image retrieval
Algolia lets you integrate with third-party image-analysis APIs (e.g., Google Cloud Vision) to offer content-based image retrieval (CBIR). As the name implies, CBIR can interpret the content of an image (e.g., its colors, shapes, textures) to provide better content identification compared with the results produced by an online tool using just an image's metadata.
Create Image Search or Reverse Image Search
Your customers can use the search box to search your index for images from your content or index, or they can search by image (known as “reverse image search”), pasting in an existing picture and looking for what’s similar.
The benefits of using Algolia Image Search
Using image search is a more common preference than you might think. Whether they’re using the search bar on a computer or mobile device such as an Apple iPhone or Android phone, our picture search functionality makes searching for images a cinch. People can either use words to describe what they want or drag and drop an image to find similar images.
Images that are matches in some way (e.g., other women’s white crew neck T-shirts).
Names of pictured items, such as toys or home furnishings.
Other items, for instance, among styles of sunglasses, that have similar shapes, colors, or materials.
The identity of someone (e.g., a celebrity) pictured in an online news photo
The location shown in an image.
Easily create elegant image search
Type in keywords
To have the image search engine find related images
Past in an image
Let our image-analyis feature search for similar images
Easy setup and implementation
Enrich your records using a third-party API, or platform such as Google Cloud Vision API, and then, using the same image-recognition platform you’re using to categorize your images, turn the uploaded images into Algolia search queries.
1. Enrich your records
Using a third-party API or platform
2. Turn images into queries
Using our Algolia Search
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