A full-text search in Azure Cognitive Search
The power of Azure Cognitive Search comes when you need to perform a full-text search to find relevant documents that will satisfy your query. This Azure service uses Apache Lucene under the hood, which is a well-known high-performance search engine written in Java. In many cases, common text queries should be covered by the basic capabilities of search engines built with the help of Azure Cognitive Services. For more sophisticated scenarios, a full-text search can help in getting the desired results.
You can find more information about Lucene here: https://lucene.apache.org/core/. It is an open source project that everyone can download.
In this chapter, you will learn how to perform a full-text search, what the syntax is, and how to recognize potential issues.
Sending a request
In the first section of this chapter, you created your Azure Search instance and saw Search explorer, which enables you to send simple queries. Now,...