Enterprise-tier example: typo-tolerant instant search over a product/document catalog — Algolia or Elasticsearch instead of a dedicated Lucene engineer

Claim: Search over a product / document catalog — Algolia founded 2012 (Dessaigne & Lemoine; Y Combinator W2014) — search-as-a-service, no infra to manage or Elasticsearch first release 2010 — open-source on Apache Lucene; commodity search deliver typo-tolerant instant search that previously demanded a dedicated Lucene/Solr engineer ([[pre-elasticsearch-sql-like-or-custom-lucene]]).

Source: Synthesis of the search entries.

Confidence: Industry-consensus.

Why this matters for Candid: Third canonical worked example. The "search across our products / our docs" feature is the cleanest single capability that went from person-month-build to configuration-choice.