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Azure Cognitive Search is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools for building a rich search experience over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
Azure Cognitive Search simplifies a lot of complexity if you are creating an application that needs a rich search experience (think "search box" and "search results"). All that goes into creating a great search experience is available over simple REST API's: ranking that is relevant, auto-complete, suggestions, geo-spatial queries, filters, facets, etc.
We now even support new capabilities like semantic search that use the latest in AI to provide you semantic ranking and answers (this is in preview right now).
Cognitive Search Presentations to get you started:
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/ignite-2018-ai-for-knowledge-mining-using-cognitive-search-to-enrich-and-find-your-enterprise-data/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GKqhkZWoQU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aBMnRPF-ys
Cognitive Search Documentation Resources
Full List of documentation resources https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-resources-documentation, but if you want to just get started I would recommend:
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-concept-intro
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-quickstart-blob
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-tutorial-blob
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-create-custom-skill-example
Best
Puneet Hariharan