Adding Search Abilities to Your Apps with Azure Search

By Chad Campbell
Azure Search empowers you to add vertical search abilities to your apps and sites. This course will teach you about Azure Search by going through the REST API.
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(57)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Sep 20, 2016
Duration
2h 55m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
An Introduction to Azure Search
An Introduction to Azure Search 2m Why Should I Consider Azure Search? 8m Creating a Search Service 8m Azure Search Concepts: Indexes and Documents 2m
Managing Indexes in Azure Search
Creating Azure Search Indexes 19m Updating an Azure Search Index 6m Sharing Search Indexes Across Domains with CORS 3m Listing Indexes in Azure Search 1m Retrieving an Index from Azure Search 2m Removing an Azure Search Index 3m
Managing Documents in Azure Search
Uploading Documents to a Search Index 5m Removing a Document from a Search Index 1m Merging Documents 5m Reading a Document from a Search Index 2m Selecting Document Fields with Select 2m
Executing Queries in Azure Search
Introduction and Prerequisites 1m Running Azure Search Queries 3m Searching with Simple Queries 10m Searching with Full Queries 13m Getting Query Statistics 5m
Filtering and Scoring Search Results
Introduction 1m Filtering Search Results 1m OData Expression Syntax for Azure Search 1m OData Operator Introduction 0m OData Comparison Operators 1m OData Logical Operators 1m OData Lambda Functions 1m Searching by Distance 3m Searching in a Geofence 2m Measuring Document Relevancy with Scoring Profiles 2m Creating a Scoring Profile 2m Using a Scoring Profile 2m Customizing a Scoring Profile 1m Weighting Text in a Scoring Profile 2m Weighting Numbers in a Scoring Profile 2m Setting the Scoring Function Type 1m Setting the Scoring Function Field 1m Setting the Scoring Function Boost 1m Scoping a Boost 2m Handling Unknown Value Ranges 1m Boosting Dated Information 3m Boosting Distances 2m Boosting Strings in a Collection 3m Choosing a Default Scoring Profile 1m
Navigating Search Results
Navigating Search Results 1m Sorting Search Results 1m Setting up a Sort 1m Sorting in a Direction 1m Combining Sorts 1m Scoring and Sorting 2m Paging Sort Results 1m Setting the Page Size 1m Using the Skip Parameter 1m Faceted Navigation 1m Adding Facets 2m Creating Ranged Facets 0m Creating Ranged Buckets 1m Creating Intervaled Buckets 2m Customizing Facet Labels 0m Setting Facet Option Labels 2m Sorting by Facet Values 1m Sorting by Facet Result Counts 1m Limiting Search Facets 2m Using Faceted Navigation 2m Highlighting Result Data 2m Search Suggestions with Auto-complete 1m Adding Suggesters 1m Requesting Suggestions 4m Customizing the Suggestion List 4m
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Course info
Rating
(57)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Sep 20, 2016
Duration
2h 55m
Description

This course, Adding Search Ability to Your Apps with Azure Search, will show you how to use Azure Search to quickly create powerful search experiences. You'll start out with being introduced to the concepts of indexes and documents in Azure Search. In addition to the basics, this course will show you how to provide search suggestions, faceted searches, geographic searches, and natural language processing. You'll also learn how to customize search rankings. After completing this course, you'll be ready to create the powerful and precise search experience that users expect.

About the author
Chad Campbell
About the author

Chad is an independent software professional. He's been named a Microsoft MVP five times. His books have been translated into multiple languages and distributed worldwide. He holds a computer science degree from Purdue University, where he also studied psychology.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
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Course Overview
Every app and website seems to have a search box, yet very few seem to work very well. In this training course, you'll learn how to build a search engine with Azure Search. The content in this course is useful whether you're building an app for Android, iOS, or Windows. The content is also useful if you prefer to write apps or websites with JavaScript. This course is relevant across platforms because it's focused on the Azure Search service REST API. In this course, you'll see how to build a search service from scratch. You'll learn about basic concepts like indexes and documents. You'll also learn how to run simple queries and more intelligent full queries. You'll see how to find nearby results and results within a geofence. You'll learn about important concepts like scoring profiles, faceted navigation, natural language processing, and a host of other topics. My goal is provide you with a way to get up and running with Azure Search quickly. I truly believe you owe it to yourself to at least watch the first 9 minutes to learn why Azure Search is valuable. After that, you'll begin to see a beer search engine gradually take shape. This story of a beer search engine creates a fun and educational environment for this course. So, I hope you'll join me on this journey to create better search experiences with Azure Search.

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