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Dawn Foods improves B2B e-commerce search accuracy and sales with Algolia
Dawn Foods' simple keyword search could not handle complex multi-keyword B2B queries across a catalog of well over 10,000 SKUs and 10 million different price points, resulting in rage clicks, high search abandonment rates, and lower-than-desired conversions.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Complex B2B query submitted
A bakery customer submits a complex multi-keyword product search query on the B2B site.
Tools used
Algolia
Outcome
Algolia was deployed in six weeks and delivered immediate improvement: search-influenced sales greatly increased, adoption rate targets were exceeded, and both internal and external complaints were replaced with strong praise for the fast and accurate results.
What failed first
The original search solution could not match complex multi-keyword queries to the correct products, and it provided only limited visibility into how customers were interacting with search.
Results
Time savedsix weeks
Volumewell over 10,000 SKUs
Cost replaced10 million
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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