Algolia is a proprietary search engine offering, usable through the software as a service (SaaS) model. Algolia was founded in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, both originally from Paris, France. It was originally a company focused on offline search on mobile phones. Later it was selected to be part of Y Combinator's Winter 2014 class. Starting with two data centres in Europe and the US, Algolia opened a third centre in Singapore in March 2014, and as of 2019, claimed to be present in over 70 data centers across 16 worldwide regions. It serves roughly 11,000+ customers, handling 60 billion user queries per month. In May 2015, Algolia received $18.3M in a series A investment from a financial group led by Accel Partners, and in 2017 a $53M series B investment, also led by Accel Partners. From June 2016 to September 2019, the usage of Algolia by small websites increased from 632 to 5,168 in the "top 1 million websites" and 197 in the "top 10k websites" evaluated by BuiltWith. More information...
According to PR-model, algolia.com is ranked 457,629th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 306,967th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before hoogenlaag.nl and after armyuniversity.edu in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
