Bing image api returning weird results
Issue: We have been using https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v5.0/images/search? For many years now to grab images from Wikimedia, but since March 30th, we have started receiving inappropriate pictures and have received several support tickets. …
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Azure AI Search
Select Azure Search for custom question answering
I am trying to create a new Language service. I want to use the custom Question Answering feature in the service which requires Azure Cognitive Search. We already have a couple of Azure Cognitive Search in the subscription and I want to attach the…
Azure AI Search
Azure AI Language
Azure AI services
Can a semantic query type support advanced query forms?
I am working with Azure Cognitive Search and while going through its documentation I came across the advanced query forms like fielded search, fuzzy search, proximity search and many more, but all of these advanced forms were supported by queryType =…
Azure AI Search

How do I utilize all the OData functions in the $filters parameter in azure cognitive search?
I am trying to apply filters in azure cognitive search. I am finding it difficult to apply further advanced filters such as using dayOfWeek() . For example $filter=TimeSlots/any(dt: contains(isof(dt, 'Edm.String'), 'Mon')) or $filter=TimeSlots/any(dt:…
Azure AI Search

Datastore index creation fails with confusing message
After adding a data source (a Cosmos DB), and using the indexer wizard, I get this (see image below) when trying to start/schedule the indexer. What I have tried: checked the documents in the Cosmos DB and could not find the…
Azure AI Search

How is Semantic search working in understanding the query passed?
I have an index of products treating medical problems. It has FullName, Description, Tags as the main fields. I have been having trouble understanding on what extent does the semantic search understands the query. For example: I have a document in…
Azure AI Search
Azure AI services

Error creating a datasource in Azure Cognitive Service
When attempting to create a data source from an existing table data source in Azure Cognitive Search, an error occurs. The API call to https://abcsearch.search.windows.net/indexes/prototype?api-version=2021-04-30-Preview returns a 400 error code with…
Azure AI Search
How to use order by on the HighWaterMarkChangeDetectionPolicy field with the search service API
Hello, I'm currently work on solution of azure cognitive search with multiple cosmos db indexers. I use .NET SDK to configure my indexes and indexers. I set up the HighWaterMarkChangeDetectionPolicy on the _ts filed of my cosmos documents. I set up the…
Azure AI Search
Azure Cosmos DB

How to Extract Paragraph Across Multiple PDF files with Azure Cognitive Search
Hi Experts, I'm using Azure Blob Storage as the data source of my Azure Cognitive Search, and the blobs are all PDF files. I split the PDF files by pages and store each page as a standalone PDF files, then upload to the Azure Blob Storage container. Due…
Azure AI Search
What is the best storage type for ongoing indexing?
I need to store a bunch of documents (anything from a few hundred to around maybe 10,000) in Azure. I then have a search indexer that cracks these and updates an index. By documents I just mean a bunch of (complex) json objects. Every hour I will…
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Azure
Azure Cosmos DB

Azure search word document hyperlinks
Hello everyone, this post is regarding the Azure search functions. I have been experimenting with searching through hyperlinks contained in Word documents, which are all stored in the Azure blob storage. Searching through these hyperlinks…
Azure AI Search

How is Semantic Search using fields set up in Semantic Configuration to re rank results in Azure Cognitive Search
Hey, I have an index in azure cognitive search where I have given the details of my offerings. There are two main fields (amongst many others like Name, Availability etc.): Bio (Edm.String) Tags (Collection(Edm.String)) I have defined a…
Azure AI Search
Invalid hostname for this tenancy when creating an Indexer for SharePoint
I am encountering this error during creation of an Indexer for SharePoint { "error": { "code": "", "message": "Error with data source: Code: invalidRequest\r\nMessage: Invalid hostname for…
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How do I configure Azure Cognitive Search datasource to connect using service principal?
I am moving from SQL server to Synapse and need to connect my data source in Cognitive Search using a service principal. I do not see an option for this. Is it possible?
Azure AI Search
Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Search Query
If would be really helpful if we can select complex fields conditionally and only include those matched. We have a profile and each profile is on one or more networks. value": [{ "@search.score": 1.0, "FirstName":…
Azure AI Search
How to add scoring function of type Freshness to a field of type Collections(Edm.ComplexType) in Azure Cognitive Search?
I have configured and indexed the data for Azure Cognitive Search, the indexed data contains a field TimeSlots of type Collections(Edm.ComplexType) which looks like "TimeSlots": [ { "Slot":…
Azure AI Search
How to extend or get around of the limit of 100k documents for Cognitive Search while querying index?
Hello, IT-community! i have setup a Cognitive Search index which contains >=400m documents. Data is flowing into index from 3 different data sources with 3 different indexers. I have a requirement to read paginated data where expected documents count…
Azure AI Search

How to replace %20 with <space> using conditional skillset?
Hi, I am trying to use a conditional skillset to remove part of a name and replace it with space. For Example, I would like to replace %20 with <space>. I was looking into the document related to conditional skill, link below, but cannot find any…
Azure AI Search

Azure Search minimum_should_match parameter from Elastic
Is minimum_should_match parameter from Elastic supported by Azure Cognitive Search?
Azure AI Search
can we pump sql table in azure cognitive search using C# code?
can we pump the SQL table in azure cognitive search using the C# code? One approach is available to add JSON format documents in the azure cognitive search index on Microsoft learning document. But can we do this by writing a SQL query and the index…