Comment by Preetish Panda on "Ask anything to Algolia Team (AMA)"

CommentAsk anything to Algolia Team (AMA)

Preetish Panda

Product, Marketing & Technology

Feb 26, 2016

Considering that we're moving towards an internet that is getting more and more fragmented via apps (genius.com for lyrics, product hunt for new products), in future these apps might become the go-to place for searching something. Now, Algolia is powering the search functionality in these apps without taking any personal data and working in a device-agnostic mode.

So my question is this - aren't you one of the major threat to Google?

Sylvain Utard

VP of Engineering @ Algolia

Mar 3, 2016

We’re both doing search but in a totally different way. Google indexes web pages and try to detect which pages are relevant based on 200+ ranking web criteria.

On the other hand, we’re helping developers to build their internal search engine by providing them all they need to customize the ranking/relevance of their search based on business knowledge/data. Most of the time, the data you use to customize the Algolia ranking is not public and cannot be guessed by Google: number of sales, number of page views, etc...

Dustin Coates

Internet person

Mar 3, 2016

That would explain the cute little car (google.com/selfdrivingcar/images/home-where.jpg) that’s always parked outside of our office. ;)

More seriously, we see Algolia as complementary to Google. Sometimes you want to search for general information across multiple sites, and Google really is still the best at that. And sometimes you want to search just through a specific site, and that’s where we think we’re creating a much better experience--both for website/app owners and for their users.

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