is upgrading to algolia/klevu actually pointless if your users still type garbage?
seeing so many store owners spend thousands migrating their search backends to get 10ms retrieval speeds.
but if your user types "jacket" and your frontend just passes that raw string to the backend, returning 500 irrelevant jackets instantly doesn't actually solve the problem. the retrieval engine isn't the bottleneck, human query formulation is.
is anyone else focusing on fixing the input bar instead of the search engine? like adding an intent layer like ai-autocomplete to structure the query into JSON before it even goes to search?