Industries

Search that speaks your industry’s language

Every industry has its own search problems. Pick yours to see what’s frustrating your customers, how Algolia AI Search fixes it, and the results others have seen.

What do you sell?

Choose your industry. Each section is short, practical and written for your customers.

Turn more searches into orders

Style, size and colour searches that sell

Brand and ingredient searches that work

Big technical catalogues made simple

Faster baskets and easy repeat orders

The right part, first time

Find SKUs, parts and prices fast

Connect buyers and sellers at scale

Get more value from every article

Help students find courses and answers

Search inside your product

Ecommerce & retail

Your search box should sell, not frustrate

Shoppers who search know what they want. If they can’t find it in a few seconds, they buy it somewhere else.

Sound familiar?

✕  “No results” for products you actually sell

✕  Best sellers lost on page three

✕  Merchandising that needs a developer every time

How Algolia fixes it

✓  AI search that understands intent and typos

✓  Dynamic Re-Ranking puts what sells at the top

✓  Merchandising Studio your team can run alone

$20M

incremental annual revenue

+25%

conversion rate

Fashion & apparel

Help shoppers find their style, in their size

Fashion shoppers search by look, colour and occasion, and they leave fast when results feel random.

Sound familiar?

✕  “White summer dress” returns a jumble of products

✕  Sold-out sizes fill the first page

✕  Every new collection means re-sorting by hand

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Search that understands style words and synonyms

✓  In-stock, best-selling items ranked first

✓  Personalised results and recommendations for each shopper

3.5x

conversion for shoppers who search

+150%

search sales contribution

50%

faster merchandising changes

Health, beauty & pharmacy

Find the right product, even when it’s misspelled

Shoppers type brand names, ingredients and symptoms, often with spelling mistakes.

Sound familiar?

✕  Misspelled brands return nothing

✕  Hundreds of near-identical variants

✕  Seasonal demand changes overnight

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Typo tolerance and synonyms for brands and ingredients

✓  Query categorisation sends shoppers to the right aisle

✓  Boost own-brand and high-margin lines

+112%

search conversions

Home, DIY & electronics

Make a huge catalogue feel easy to shop

Shoppers search by size, model number or project. Tens of thousands of SKUs make that hard.

Sound familiar?

✕  Technical specs that are hard to filter

✕  Searches by model or part number fail

✕  Category pages sorted by hand and out of date

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Fast filters across every spec

✓  Ranking driven by real clicks and purchases

✓  A/B testing to prove each change

+206%

search revenue

$28M

estimated annual revenue increase

Grocery

Help shoppers fill their basket in minutes

Grocery shoppers buy many items at once, often the same ones every week, and they use everyday words.

Sound familiar?

✕  Everyday or local words don’t match product names

✕  Building a full basket takes too long

✕  Seasonal, promo and own-brand items are hard to push

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Search that understands everyday and mixed-language terms

✓  “Buy it again” and personalised suggestions

✓  Rank by margin, offers and season without manual rules

~65%

of customers use search to shop

~20ms

average search response time

Auto parts

Stop wrong-part orders and costly returns

Buyers need a part that fits their exact vehicle. One wrong result means a return, a refund and a lost customer.

Sound familiar?

✕  Shoppers describe a problem, not a part name

✕  Messy fitment data shows parts that don’t fit

✕  Out-of-stock or discontinued parts in results

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Search by part number, vehicle or plain language

✓  Fitment-aware results (ACES/PIES data supported)

✓  Real-time stock and pricing updates

58%

fewer searches with no clicks

3x

average daily revenue growth

B2B & wholesale

Let trade buyers find and reorder in seconds

B2B buyers search by SKU and part number and expect their own prices and stock levels.

Sound familiar?

✕  Part numbers and long-tail queries return nothing

✕  Every customer needs their own catalogue and pricing

✕  Category pages built and maintained by hand

How Algolia fixes it

✓  SKU and part-number search with AI synonyms

✓  Customer-specific access, pricing and warehouse stock

✓  Category pages built automatically

+22%

conversion rate

5x

click-through rate growth

Marketplaces

Make thousands of sellers feel like one great store

Listings, prices and stock change every minute. Buyers still expect the best match on the first page.

Sound familiar?

✕  Huge, fast-changing catalogues

✕  Duplicate and poor-quality listings

✕  Merchandising run from spreadsheets

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Near real-time indexing of price, stock and sellers

✓  Ranking tuned to your marketplace goals

✓  Merchandising Studio with AI and human control

Media & publishing

Help readers find the stories you’ve already written

Your best content is often buried in the archive, and readers leave when they can’t find it.

Sound familiar?

✕  Evergreen content goes unread

✕  No view of what readers search for

✕  Generic “related articles” that don’t engage

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Fast search across all your content sources

✓  Personalised recommendations to keep readers reading

✓  Insights into search intent and content gaps

300–500x

faster search than their previous solution

Higher education

Help students find what they need first time

Students use everyday words; university sites use formal ones. Poor search can send applicants to a competitor.

Sound familiar?

✕  Information spread across many department sites

✕  Everyday questions don’t match formal page titles

✕  No visibility into searches that dead-end

How Algolia fixes it

✓  One search across all campus sites and documents

✓  Natural-language search and conversational answers

✓  Analytics that show and fix failed searches

SaaS & software

Give your users answers, not tickets

Users want to find files, features and help articles inside your product instantly.

Sound familiar?

✕  Slow, basic in-app search

✕  Help content users can’t find, so they raise tickets

✕  Engineers maintaining search instead of building product

How Algolia fixes it

✓  Search-as-you-type across product data and help content

✓  Hosted APIs and UI libraries that ship fast

✓  Analytics on what users search and can’t find

Results are published by Algolia for its customers (follow each link for the source). Your results depend on your traffic, catalogue and setup, which is exactly what the free health check looks at.

Not sure where your search is losing customers?

Get a FREE Search Health Check: 30 minutes, real searches on your site, and a clear plan to fix what’s broken.