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Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020
Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change.
October 2019
Azure Media Indexer is being retired
Target retirement date: January 01, 2023
A year ago we announced the general availability of Azure Video Indexer, which is built on the capabilities of Azure Media Analytics, Azure Search, and Cognitive Services. This enables you to extract a rich set of machine learning insights based on multiple channels of your media files, all integrated together in one call and on a shared timeline.
August 2019
Cognitive Services—Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.
May 2019
Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the Azure Search Document Cracking Image Extraction Resource GUID name will change.
The Cognitive Search feature of Azure Search is now available
Cognitive Search is an enrichment pipeline that transforms raw, unstructured content into rich searchable information in an Azure Search index.
New knowledge mining capabilities in Azure Search
Cognitive search capability, the content-understanding feature within Azure Search, now offers a single mechanism to apply a series of pre-built and custom AI models to data. In addition, a new knowledge store capability in cognitive search enables developers to further leverage the insights and metadata they extracted from the cognitive search pipeline. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/Build2019_AI-ML" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
December 2018
Connect Cognitive Services subscription to enable unlimited skillset execution
Starting December 21, 2018, you’ll be able to associate your Cognitive Services subscription with an Azure Search skillset. The skillset execution will be charged as part of the Cognitive Services subscription. On December 21, 2018, we’ll also begin charging for image extraction as part of our document-cracking stage. Text extraction from documents will continue to be offered at no additional cost.
November 2018
Azure Cognitive Services new enhancements
New enhancements include Logo Detection in Custom Vision Service and Translation improvements.
May 2018
Microsoft Cognitive Services | Bing Visual Search API
Bing Visual Search API is a new service that delivers intelligent image understanding capabilities from Bing.
Microsoft Cognitive Services | Bing Custom Search API
Bing Custom Search API is an easy-to-use, ad-free search solution that lets you build a search experience and query content on your website or across a selected set of websites or domains.
Azure Cognitive Search
Cognitive Search, a new preview feature in the existing Azure Search service, includes an enrichment pipeline allowing you to find rich structured information from documents. That information can then become part of your Azure Search index.
December 2017
Preview: Azure SDK for Go 12.0.0
Preview version 12.0.0-beta of the Azure SDK for Go is now available to help you use Azure services from Go applications. To get it, run `go get -u github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/...` or use dep.
August 2016
Public preview: Computer Vision API and Academic Knowledge API in Cognitive Services
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs that enable developers to tap into high-quality vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search technologies.
July 2016
General availability: Bing APIs in Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs that enables developers to build intelligent apps by tapping into high-quality vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search technologies.
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