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7. Integrating Azure Search

Thurupathan Vijayakumar

(1)Colombo, Sri Lanka

Search is an essential part of any application; sometimes search defines the entire functionality of an application as well. Azure Search is a search-as-a service model, where the management of search resources is handled by Azure and developers are left to focus on the search functionality.

Azure Search has rich capabilities like multi-lingual search support, document cracking, in-built indexing support for various data sources, search suggestions, hit-highlighting, faceted navigation, geo-spatial search, and much more. The broader spectrum of features ...

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