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Pros of Algolia
Pros of Stack Overflow
  • 126
    Ultra fast
  • 95
    Super easy to implement
  • 73
    Modern search engine
  • 71
    Excellent support
  • 70
    Easy setup, fast and relevant
  • 46
    Typos handling
  • 40
    Search analytics
  • 31
    Distributed Search Network
  • 31
    Designed to search records, not pages
  • 30
    Multiple datacenters
  • 10
    Smart Highlighting
  • 9
    Search as you type
  • 8
    Multi-attributes
  • 8
    Instantsearch.js
  • 6
    Super fast, easy to set up
  • 5
    Amazing uptime
  • 5
    Database search
  • 4
    Highly customizable
  • 4
    Great documentation
  • 4
    Github-awesome-autocomple
  • 4
    Realtime
  • 3
    Powerful Search
  • 3
    Places.js
  • 3
    Beautiful UI
  • 2
    Ok to use
  • 2
    Integrates with just about everything
  • 2
    Awesome aanltiycs and typos hnadling
  • 1
    Developer-friendly frontend libraries
  • 1
    Smooth platform
  • 1
    Fast response time
  • 1
    Github integration
  • 0
    Nooo
  • 0
    Fuck
  • 0
    Giitera
  • 0
    Is it fool
  • 257
    Scary smart community
  • 206
    Knows all
  • 142
    Voting system
  • 134
    Good questions
  • 83
    Good SEO
  • 22
    Addictive
  • 14
    Tight focus
  • 10
    Share and gain knowledge
  • 7
    Useful
  • 3
    Fast loading
  • 2
    Gamification
  • 1
    Knows everyone
  • 1
    Experts share experience and answer questions
  • 1
    Stack overflow to developers As google to net surfers
  • 1
    Questions answered quickly
  • 1
    No annoying ads
  • 1
    No spam
  • 1
    Fast community response
  • 1
    Good moderators
  • 1
    Quick answers from users
  • 1
    Good answers
  • 1
    User reputation ranking
  • 1
    Efficient answers
  • 1
    Leading developer community

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Cons of Algolia
Cons of Stack Overflow
  • 11
    Expensive
  • 3
    Not welcoming to newbies
  • 3
    Unfair downvoting
  • 3
    Unfriendly moderators
  • 3
    No opinion based questions
  • 3
    Mean users
  • 2
    Limited to types of questions it can accept

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What is Algolia?

Our mission is to make you a search expert. Push data to our API to make it searchable in real time. Build your dream front end with one of our web or mobile UI libraries. Tune relevance and get analytics right from your dashboard.

What is Stack Overflow?

Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.

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