Can I use a single search service for multi indexes

Question

For a web portal, I'm trying to develop a general AI chatbot. Users of the site can use bots to look for general features such as what's new etc .

Can I use a single AI search to look up every model? If not, can you provide a way to get this feature?

Answer 1

Hi Andreas

yes I guess its pretty much possible to do this,

I see a similar question been answered for the same, kindly have a look at this question below and the answers too

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1470411/azure-ai-search-chat-extension-multiple-indexes-wi

If there is much to your question feel free to ping here and if this helps kindly accept the answer and close the thread thanks much,

Answer 2

@Andreas Mac Yes. That is possible. You have control over which index to use.

If you are using OpenAI on your Data, you can pass in the index name to use in the request. While the sample app hardcodes this to just one, you would have to include your own logic to decide which index to use.

This decision itself could be offloaded to the model as well, by using an intermediate prompt to decide which index to use based on the search prompt.

Typically, scenarios like these are good starting points for leveraging packages like Semantic Kernel that allow building complex workflows using LLM Models.