General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions
Streamline your Cognitive Search operations with debug sessions for building, testing, and modifying skillsets.
Public preview: Semantic Search update
Semantic Search, a feature of Azure Cognitive Search, is now available for direct configuration in the Azure Portal.
Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024
Upgrade your skills to version 3 of Azure Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills.
Azure Cognitive Search – Managed identity support and Private Endpoints are GA
You can now request Azure Cognitive Search to create an outbound private endpoint connection in order to securely access data from such data sources via indexers . You can also…
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021
To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK
Azure Search meter names will change on February 1, 2020
Effective February 1, 2020, the meter names of Azure Search will change.
Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud
Azure Search is now integrated with the Azure Government cloud, enabling U.S. public sector customers to create sophisticated search solutions.
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.
Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard Unit Resource GUID change
Effective July 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Search Basic Unit and Standard S1, S2 and S3 Unit for the Japan East region will change.
Azure Search now supports complex search types
Azure Search now supports complex searches for raw datasets that don’t break down neatly.
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…
Azure Search—New storage optimized service tiers are now in preview
The new L-series tiers offer significantly more storage at a reduced cost per terabyte compared to the standard tiers. This is ideal for internal applications searching over large file repositories,…
Blob output partitioning in Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics users can now partition output to Azure Blob storage based on custom date and time formats.
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…
Synonyms for Azure Search
Support for synonyms in Azure Search, soon to be in preview, is one of our most requested features on UserVoice. Synonyms functionality will allows for Azure Search to not only return…
General availability: New API version and .NET SDK for Azure Search
Azure Search has released new features in API version 2016-09-01 and a new .NET SDK.
Azure Search: .NET SDK preview and portal support for Blob/Table indexers
Azure Search has released a new preview version of the .NET SDK and supports Blob and Table storage indexers in the Azure portal.
Azure Search: Update to the Search Traffic Analytics dashboard in Power BI
The updated Power BI content pack for Azure Search contains insightful data about your Azure Search service and useful visualizations.
Azure Search S3 and S3 High Density tiers in public preview, and Basic tier generally available
Azure Search helps developers build rich, first-class search experiences into their applications.
Public preview: Azure Search Blob indexer parses structured JSON content
The Azure Search Blob indexer can now parse JSON documents while preserving document structure.
Public preview: Azure Search indexer for Azure tables
Azure Search supports Azure tables as a data source.
Public preview: Azure Search Basic tier
The Basic tier of Azure Search offers a low-cost and production-ready search service for your web and mobile applications.
General availability: Lucene query syntax in Azure Search
Lucene query syntax is now available as part of the Azure Search REST API.
General availability: Azure Search .NET SDK
The Azure Search .NET SDK is now generally available.
Azure Search: .NET SDK version 1.0.1-preview
Version 1.0.1-preview of the Azure Search .NET SDK is now available.
Preview: Customize lexical analyzers in Azure Search
Take control over the process of breaking your documents into searchable terms.
Azure Search: Search Traffic Analytics available
Enable traffic analytics in Azure Search to gain visibility into your search service and learn about your users.
Azure Search: Lucene query syntax fully supported
Write more powerful queries in Azure Search with the full Lucene query language.
Azure Search: Search Explorer available
Query your Azure Search indexes and see search results directly from the Azure portal.
Azure Search updates: API prototype, language support, new regions
Azure Search updates include an API prototype, language support, and new regions.
General availability: New regions for Azure Search
We’ve announced the general availability of 3 new regions for Azure Search—Brazil South, Australia East, and Japan West—bringing the global availability of Azure Search to a total of 11 regions.
General availability: Azure Search
Azure Search is a search-as-a-service solution that helps developers build sophisticated search experiences into web and mobile applications.
Preview: Azure Search
Incorporate search capabilities into applications without having to worry about the complexities of full-text search