- Azure Search is a search-as-a-service cloud solution that gives developers APIs and tools for adding a rich search experience over private, heterogenous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
- Query execution is over a user-defined index.
- You can build a search corpus containing only your data, sourced from multiple content types and platforms.
- It provides an AI-powered indexing to extract text and features from image files, or entities and key phrases from raw text.
- Offers intuitive search experiences with facet navigation and filters, synonyms, auto-complete, and text analysis for "did you mean" auto-corrected search terms.
- Allows to add geo-search for "find near me", language analyzers for non-English full text search, and scoring logic for search rank.
- Functionality is exposed through a simple REST API or .NET SDK that masks the inherent complexity of information retrieval.