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Search has evolved from a static box into a dynamic, AI-driven experience that helps users find, learn, and make decisions faster. At Algolia, our guiding principle has always been to enable developers to build search that is fast, intuitive, and intelligent.

Today, we’re launching SiteSearch — an open-source set of reusable search components, designed with best practices in UX and performance in mind, built on Algolia’s InstantSearch UI library, and enhanced with Ask AI.

SiteSearch gives developers and builders an instant head start — enabling them to go from concept to production-ready search experiences in just minutes, with minimal engineering effort.

SiteSearch: Ready-made search UI experiences built with InstantSearch

If you’ve ever built a site search from scratch, you know the trade-offs: flexibility vs. speed, customization vs. maintainability. SiteSearch's collection of UI components bridges that gap by giving you ready-to-use, production-quality experiences built on InstantSearch — the same robust toolbox trusted by thousands of developers.

Think of InstantSearch as the toolbox full of UI components for building custom search interfaces. SiteSearch takes that toolbox and delivers pre-assembled experiences you can:

• Use as-is to launch instantly,

• Customize to match your brand or layout, or

• Extend with your own logic and components.

It’s not a UI library — it’s a jump-start layer built on top of InstantSearch, giving you a complete, modern search experience from the very first commit.

Available in the shadcn design registry, you can get started in seconds:

npx shadcn@latest add @algolia/search

Modular by design

SiteSearch is composed of modular, reusable building blocks — the same core pieces you’d need to assemble by hand, but already wired, styled, and optimized.

Each experience includes:

• A search box for instant query input

• A dynamic results list

• Optional Ask AI chatbot

Because it’s modular, you can:

• Rearrange or restyle components effortlessly

• Extend them with your own widgets

• Integrate into any site or app stack in minutes 

Under the hood, InstantSearch powers the entire experience — ensuring the same reliability, scalability, and performance you already know from Algolia.

You get the speed of a pre-built experience with the flexibility of a fully customizable foundation.

Build your way: hands-on or AI-assisted

Whether you want full control or prefer to move fast, SiteSearch supports both approaches.

Manual mode

Developers can open the code, customize every detail, and ship confidently. Adjust layouts, logic, and styling — all with full transparency.

AI-assisted mode

Prefer to move faster? SiteSearch's collection of UI pre-built experiences works seamlessly with modern AI-powered front-end tools like v0.dev, Lovable, or Cursor. Describe your desired interface in natural language, and these tools generate and configure a production-ready SiteSearch layout automatically.

“Create a two-column search page with filters on the left, results on the right, and an AI summary box on top.”

Within minutes, you’re not looking at a prototype — you’re looking at a live, functional search experience.

Flexible, fast, and open

SiteSearch collection of pre-built UI experiences is open source, flexible, built with best UI/UX practices in mind and simply works out-of-the-box. 

Start with an existing experience and make it yours — or extend it with Ask AI to deliver generative summaries, contextual insights, or conversational answers.

No heavy setup. No long engineering cycles. Just production-ready search in minutes — backed by the speed, reliability, and intelligence of Algolia Search.

From concept to launch in minutes

With SiteSearch pre-built UI experiences, you can turn an idea into a live, production-grade content search experience faster than ever before.

Start with a ready-made setup, customize freely, and launch with confidence. Built on InstantSearch and enhanced with Ask AI, SiteSearch brings together the best of both worlds: the stability of a proven search library and the agility of pre-built, modern experiences.

Create rich, AI-augmented search interfaces that fit your brand, your content, and your workflow — without the setup overhead.

Next steps:

• Get started with  SiteSearch 
• Learn more on Algolia docs about: sitesearch
• Got questions? Get in touch with our team or join our Discord community