Azure Search

Azure Search is a search-as-a-service solution that allows developers to incorporate a sophisticated search experience into web and mobile applications without having to worry about the complexities of full-text search and without having to deploy, maintain or manage any infrastructure

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  1. Extend Tag Boosting by "searching" instead of "filtering"

    Azure Search with Tag Boosting will give a boost to documents that have "exact" tags in common with the input query.

    If a tag in index is "salt lake city" and one from query is "salt lake", the document doesn't get a boost. Even worse, since I believe Tag matching is using "filter" routine, it is case-sensitive.

    Yes, we can do multi-column search, but one column search with tag boosting is a way more fast and returns better relevance results focusing on the main column.

    So it would be great if Azure Search extends the current Tag Boosting to use…

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    • Random Scoring

      See here https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/random-scoring.html
      This has come up in the past on SO by other users as well.

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        1 comment  ·  Scoring  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        unplanned  ·  AdminThe Azure Team on UserVoice (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded

        Thank you for your feedback. While it is unlikely we’ll address this suggestion in the near future, we’ll reassess based on the number of votes it receives. The workaround mentioned here is very cool, by the way!

        Thanks,
        Mike
        Azure Search Product Team

      • Add machine learned ranking models

        Similar to Solr's (small) capabilities
        https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Learning+To+Rank

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        • Allow lucene search syntax or scoring profiles in suggestions

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          • Add auto-turning by telemetry logging or any type of log gathering on Azure Portal or so.

            Some customer doen't have Search expert and need to ranking profile turning after telemetry dashboard. Can we add Suggestion functionarity on Azure Portal like "how about to add this ranking profile"?

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              0 comments  ·  Scoring  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              need-feedback  ·  AdminThe Azure Team on UserVoice (Admin, Microsoft Azure) responded

              I like the idea of making suggestions in the portal about ways an admin can improve the experience of their user, but I’m not sure I understand your specific suggestion. Can you provide more information about the telemetry you’d expect us to track and the criteria we’d use to provide a recommendation to the admin?

              Thanks,
              Mike Carter
              Azure Search Product Team

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