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Azure Cognitive Search documentation

Cloud search over private heterogeneous content, with options for AI enrichment if your content is unstructured or unsearchable in raw form.

About Cognitive Search

Overview

  • What is Azure Cognitive Search?
  • What is vector search?
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • What is semantic search?

Training

  • Learning module

10-minute quickstarts

Quickstart

  • Create a search service
  • Create a search index
  • Create a demo app
  • Create a skillset

Develop apps

Tutorial

  • Add search to web apps

How-To Guide

  • Develop in .NET
  • Develop in REST

Reference

  • Azure REST API Reference
  • Azure SDK for .NET
  • Azure SDK for Python

Index data

Overview

  • What's a search index?
  • Importing data
  • Indexer overview

How-To Guide

  • Index from Azure Blob Storage
  • Index from Azure SQL Database
  • Index from Azure Cosmos DB
  • Index any data

Query data

Concept

  • Query types and composition
  • Simple syntax (default)
  • Full Lucene syntax

How-To Guide

  • Create a simple query
  • Create advanced queries

Reference

  • OData language reference
  • Search Documents (REST)

Enrich with AI

Concept

  • What is AI enrichment?
  • Skillsets
  • Knowledge stores
  • Previous Versions
  • Blog
  • Contribute
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Trademarks
  • © Microsoft 2023
  • Previous Versions
  • Blog
  • Contribute
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Trademarks
  • © Microsoft 2023