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Algolia

Logo: Algolia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Search software company

Algolia is a French proprietary search-as-a-service platform, with its headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Paris and London. Its main product is a web search platform for individual websites.3 It was founded by Julien Lemoine.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Oct 8, 2012Founded1
  • Industrywholesale (business-to-business) of computers, computer peripheral equipment and software1
  • HeadquartersParis1
  • Websitewww.algolia.com
  • Legal formsociété par actions simplifiée1
  • Incorporated inDE6
  • Business address2415 3Rd Street, San Francisco, Ca 941036
  • LEI969500FRUBV41YECRS214
  • StatusActive4
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)4
  • Registered address55 RUE D'AMSTERDAM, 75008 Paris, France4
  • Registered withNational Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, 7886808584

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Algolia is a French proprietary search-as-a-service platform, with its headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Paris and London. Its main product is a web search platform for individual websites.3

The story

Founded by Julien Lemoine on Oct 8, 2012.1

Leadership

Who has led Algolia, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Board members and other officers (1)

Products and brands

  • software

Listed on Wikidata.1

The platform provides search as a service, offering web search across a client's website using an externally hosted search engine. Although in-site search has long been available from general web search providers such as Google, this is typically done as a subset of general web searching. Algolia's product only indexes their clients' sites. Data for the client site is pushed from the client to Algolia via a RESTful JSON API, then the search box is added to the client's web pages.

API

Algolia provides their search service via various APIs. The Rest API provides basic features of search, analysis and monitoring. There are 10 supported languages and platforms for client usage.

Infrastructure

Algolia documented one attempt to remove all single points of failure in their architecture and proposed a worldwide infrastructure called Distributed Search Network to reply to a search query from any location closer to the source.

The DSN feature allows setting the locations in Algolia's network where the data should be duplicated.

From Wikipedia’s article on Algolia, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Timeline

  1. Oct 8, 2012Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How Algolia is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARAlgolia, Inc.2
  • CIK0001642852
  • Employer ID (EIN)37-17513952
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 312
  • Business address2415 3Rd Street, San Francisco, CA 941032
  • Phone415-712-00892
  • On EDGAR sinceMay 20, 20152
  • Filings5 in all: D (5)2

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