Azure Cognitive Search

Start, maintain and scale with minimal investment

Deploy a search index quickly and avoid operational maintenance. This fully managed cloud search service reduces the complexity of data ingestion and index creation by integrating with popular Azure storage solutions and offering index functionality exposed through a simple REST API or .NET SDK. Deploy a fully configured search service with intuitive user experiences such as scoring, faceting, suggestions, synonyms and geo-search – all while avoiding the operational overhead needed to debug index corruption, monitor service availability or manually scale during traffic fluctuations.

See how one customer saved months of upfront dev time setting up a search index

Create searchable content using integrated AI

Take advantage of Azure AI speech, vision and language services to transform raw, unstructured information into searchable content. Easily orchestrate AI services that bring structure to your data before it’s indexed by defining your own Cognitive Search skillset. Applying AI capabilities such as OCR, translation, key phrase extraction, location, people and organisation detection is as simple as ticking a box in the Cognitive Search portal.

Surface the most relevant results for your users based on search intent and not just keywords

Leverage tried-and-tested deep learning models from Microsoft Research and Bing to provide contextual and most relevant results in your apps. Using semantic search capability, you can understand the intent of what your customers are trying to search, offer significantly improved search results and drive deeper customer engagement. Semantic search also enables summary results so that your users can get quick snippet without the need to go through results links and full documents.