18 Jul 2013
We recently reached a new milestone towards the release of our Search as a
Service offer. We're now proud to offer 10 API clients, covering all major
languages.
Ease of use was a major focus during development. We began by offering a
complete and easy-to-integrate REST API.
Providing API clients was a logical way to improve ease of use. You can now
quick start and test the engine with your data in a couple of minutes, with no
prior configuration whatsoever. Each API Client is released under the MIT
License and comes with a quick start and complete documentation:
This variety of languages and platforms reveals the diversity of our beta
testers:
- Customer size: from a small startup developing their MVP, to a big social network searching in their 130M+ users.
- Volume: from a few queries to tens of millions per day.
- Technical environments: mobile, desktop, and web apps.
Interested in trying it out yourself? Ask for an
invite!
08 Jul 2013
Like most search engines, version 2.1 did not include any specific processing
for Asian Languages. Version 2.2 significantly improves Asian language support
(Chinese, Japanese, Korean) by including specific processing like the
automatic conversion between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese using
the Unicode UniHan Database. This
advanced processing was only possible because we built our own Unicode
library. Many
thanks to Stephen for his help!
This release also contains other improvements we released first for our SaaS
version:
- The out-of-the-box ranking was greatly improved when queries contained more than two words,
- Indexing speed was greatly improved on mobile (2 times more efficient),
- Search speed was improved by about 20%.
We hope you’ll like these new features, and as ever, we welcome your feedback!
24 Jun 2013
One week after releasing our Java & Android
clients, we are happy to release our iOS and
OS X API clients for
our search-as-a-service offer.
In order to ease the setup, we support Cocoapods. Installation of the client
just requires one line in your Podfile:
pod 'AlgoliaSearch-Client', '~> 1.0
And don't forget we also provide developers with an offline
SDK that they can use to search directly on
iOS devices with no connection to the network. Developers now have the
perfect tools to build a great search experience both online and offline.
With this new client, we now have API Clients for the most popular languages
and platforms. They are all released under the MIT license and available on
our Github account:
Ease of integration just improved again! Your feedback (and pull requests) is
most welcome.
17 Jun 2013
Our Search-as-a-Service offer is progressing toward its official release. We
launched our Java and
Android search API
Clients at DroidCon Paris today! Come to see
us if you're attending!
And don't forget we also provide developers with an offline
SDK they can use to search directly on
Android devices with no connection to the network. Developers now have the
perfect tools to build a great search experience both online and offline.
The Android API Client is based on the Java client and adds support of
asynchronous API calls. You can thus easily trigger a search query from the UI
thread and get the result in a listener without any additional line of code.
You have just to implement the IndexListener interface.
With these two new clients, we now have eight API Clients released under the
MIT license to simplify integration of Algolia Search as a Service:
Ease of integration just improved again! Your feedback (and pull requests) is
most welcome.
28 May 2013
We launched the private beta of our Search-as-a-Service offer two months ago. In that time we
received very positive feedback from our beta testers and we couldn't thank
them enough for the help they provided. To date, they have sent over 1M
indexation jobs and over 5M queries, and the trend is increasing.
Today we are happy to continue simplifying the experience with the release of
six API Clients under the MIT license:
Ease of integration just improved again! Your feedback (and pull requests) is
most welcome.
