Case Study: POLITICO achieves 8x faster, highly relevant search with Algolia

Delivering actionable information to subscribers through 8x faster search

POLITICO Pro, the subscription arm of POLITICO Europe that serves thousands of policy professionals across governments, corporations and NGOs, was struggling to deliver timely, relevant results from millions of documents. Their legacy AWS CloudSearch implementation was slow, hard to tune, and often failed on complex, full‑sentence queries and varied legislative identifiers—hurting user satisfaction and sales.

POLITICO chose Algolia for its speed, relevance, and developer experience, implementing a single index with distinctObjectID/flags and a frontend that combines Algolia hits with fast GraphQL lookups. The result: an 8x faster search, highly relevant results, an intuitive UX that increased usage and prevented lost sales, and easier ongoing optimization for both developers and editors.

Politico

Karl Laurentius Roos

Director Technology Development