Site search from Vertex AI Search
Power your website with Google-quality site search
Boost your website's performance with Google-quality search and generative answers that drive increased engagement, conversions, and customer satisfaction. Site search is an offering from Vertex AI Search for your customer facing websites.
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Overview
Google quality search that understands user intent
Is your website's search functionality leaving users frustrated? Give them a more intuitive and effective search experience with the same technology that powers Google. Site search from Vertex AI Search integrates seamlessly with your site to deliver a search experience that truly understands what your visitors are looking for. By leveraging Google's expertise in processing and ranking web pages, along with the advanced natural language processing capabilities of Vertex AI, our solution ensures your users find the right content, fast. This means more engaged visitors, a lower bounce rate, and ultimately, a website that works harder for you.
Generative AI answers grounded in your data
Deliver instant, accurate answers to user queries, create engaging conversational experiences, and guide users deeper into your site with relevant citations—all while staying grounded in the knowledge base of your website's content. Tailor the AI experience to your specific needs by adjusting the answer style, selecting the ideal base model, and controlling the number of top results considered for each response.
Get started in minutes
Experience the power of a superior search experience without the complexity of trying to build it yourself. Get your intelligent search up and running in minutes, thanks to an intuitive interface that streamlines setup, configuration, and customization.
Customize with precision
Tailor your site search experience with a variety of customization options and fine-tuning controls including:
- Ability to adapt to user behavior and optimize engagement
- Ability to tune embeddings or bring your own embeddings
- Ability to boost pages based on metadata / freshness / popularity
- Ability to tune precision vs recall (via relevance filtering)
- Ability to add synonyms, filter rules, redirects, and more
- Ability to add metadata from your page's HTML to enhance search accuracy
Low maintenance cost
Take the hassle out of maintaining your site's search engine. Thanks to its high-quality results from the get go, site search from Vertex AI requires minimal adjustments. Your index is automatically kept up-to-date through sitemap integration or regular refreshes, ensuring your users always find the latest content with ease.
Ready for the enterprise
With site search and across all Vertex AI Search offerings "Your data is your data." Vertex AI Search offers rigorous compliance standards including HIPAA, ISO 27000-series, and SOC -1/2/3, VPC Service Controls, and Customer-managed Encryption Keys for enhanced security. Additionally, we prioritize responsible AI in our product development. So you can deploy with confidence, knowing that our offerings are enterprise ready.
How It Works
Vertex AI offers two types of website search experiences: basic and advanced. Advanced website search requires domain verification but provides additional features like blended search. To create a website search app, follow these steps: Set up a Google Cloud project, prepare your website data according to requirements, create a data store by providing website URLs, create a search app, and configure search settings at both data store and request levels. You can preview search results, refine them by leveraging structured data, and deploy the app by embedding the search widget or integrating API calls. Remember to maintain your app by refreshing the data regularly.
Vertex AI offers two types of website search experiences: basic and advanced. Advanced website search requires domain verification but provides additional features like blended search. To create a website search app, follow these steps: Set up a Google Cloud project, prepare your website data according to requirements, create a data store by providing website URLs, create a search app, and configure search settings at both data store and request levels. You can preview search results, refine them by leveraging structured data, and deploy the app by embedding the search widget or integrating API calls. Remember to maintain your app by refreshing the data regularly.
Common Uses
Basic website search
Set up basic site search for your website in minutes
Vertex AI's basic site search allows you to access Google quality search results in minutes. To start, head to Vertex AI Agent Builder and make sure you turn the API on. Then create an app and choose the Search option. Input the name of your app and the name of your company. Then create a new datastore and choose the website option. Keep the advanced site indexing option disabled and choose a name. Add the list of URLs you want to include in your site search. Make sure you select the datastore once it has been created and finish creating your app. Now you can head to preview and start getting search results. You can deploy the application using the pre-built widget, or directly access the Vertex search API to integrate in your website.
How-tos
Set up basic site search for your website in minutes
Vertex AI's basic site search allows you to access Google quality search results in minutes. To start, head to Vertex AI Agent Builder and make sure you turn the API on. Then create an app and choose the Search option. Input the name of your app and the name of your company. Then create a new datastore and choose the website option. Keep the advanced site indexing option disabled and choose a name. Add the list of URLs you want to include in your site search. Make sure you select the datastore once it has been created and finish creating your app. Now you can head to preview and start getting search results. You can deploy the application using the pre-built widget, or directly access the Vertex search API to integrate in your website.
Advanced website search
Set up advanced site search for your website
Advanced site search provides more configurations, higher quality, and the ability to provide generative answers for user queries. To use Vertex AI's advanced site search follow the same steps as a basic site search, but this time enable the Advanced site indexing option. If you already have a basic site search, you can also upgrade it to advanced site search in the data section within the application. You will be prompted to verify your domain ownership. Follow the instructions to do so. Once your domain is verified, it takes a few hours to generate your index before you can start using it. Now you will be able to control the content of your index, access more configurations, and use generative answers to respond to user queries.
How-tos
Set up advanced site search for your website
Advanced site search provides more configurations, higher quality, and the ability to provide generative answers for user queries. To use Vertex AI's advanced site search follow the same steps as a basic site search, but this time enable the Advanced site indexing option. If you already have a basic site search, you can also upgrade it to advanced site search in the data section within the application. You will be prompted to verify your domain ownership. Follow the instructions to do so. Once your domain is verified, it takes a few hours to generate your index before you can start using it. Now you will be able to control the content of your index, access more configurations, and use generative answers to respond to user queries.
Provide generative answers in your site search experience
Get started with and customize generative answers
Vertex AI's site search allows you to offer generative answers grounded in your site data and customized to your brand voice and use case.
To get started, make sure you have an advanced site search already set up, and head to the configuration page inside your application. Select the UI tab and choose Search with Answers. Try a few questions in the preview at the right of your configuration panel. You will start seeing answers on top of your search results. Now you can customize the answer style by picking an LLM model and optionally customizing its prompt. Some prompts are preset to provide inspiration. You can change the prompt to ask for a “concise answer” or a “detailed answer” and observe how the answer style changes. Prompts can also be used to define other aspects of how answers should be generated such as specifying the tone of the answer, the level of technicality of the language, and more. You can also choose to get generative answers for a subset of your site only such as your support pages, or the section of your site dedicated to news.
How-tos
Get started with and customize generative answers
Vertex AI's site search allows you to offer generative answers grounded in your site data and customized to your brand voice and use case.
To get started, make sure you have an advanced site search already set up, and head to the configuration page inside your application. Select the UI tab and choose Search with Answers. Try a few questions in the preview at the right of your configuration panel. You will start seeing answers on top of your search results. Now you can customize the answer style by picking an LLM model and optionally customizing its prompt. Some prompts are preset to provide inspiration. You can change the prompt to ask for a “concise answer” or a “detailed answer” and observe how the answer style changes. Prompts can also be used to define other aspects of how answers should be generated such as specifying the tone of the answer, the level of technicality of the language, and more. You can also choose to get generative answers for a subset of your site only such as your support pages, or the section of your site dedicated to news.
Pricing
| Site search from Vertex AI | Site search is a capability offered by Vertex AI Search. | |
|---|---|---|
| Features and usage | Description | Price |
Search queries | User queries and search results across both basic and advanced site search. | $4.00 per 1,000 queries |
Site search indexing to enable advanced site search and customization | Site search indexing for advanced site search. | Starting at $5.00 per GB/month (approx 2,000 pages) |
Generative answers | Add on service to provide generative AI powered answers to your users search queries. Available for advanced site search only. | $4.00 per 1,000 queries |
Pricing examples:
- For a website with 1M queries per month using basic search → $4000/month
- For a website with 1M pages, 1M queries per month 50% of which use answer generation, and using advanced site indexing
- 0.5M * $4/1000 → $2,000 for simple queries
- 0.5M * $8/1000 → $4,000 for queries with generative answers
- $2500/month of indexing cost
- Total: $8,500/month
Site search from Vertex AI
Site search is a capability offered by Vertex AI Search.
Search queries
User queries and search results across both basic and advanced site search.
$4.00
per 1,000 queries
Site search indexing to enable advanced site search and customization
Site search indexing for advanced site search.
Starting at
$5.00
per GB/month (approx 2,000 pages)
Generative answers
Add on service to provide generative AI powered answers to your users search queries. Available for advanced site search only.
$4.00
per 1,000 queries
Pricing examples:
- For a website with 1M queries per month using basic search → $4000/month
- For a website with 1M pages, 1M queries per month 50% of which use answer generation, and using advanced site indexing
- 0.5M * $4/1000 → $2,000 for simple queries
- 0.5M * $8/1000 → $4,000 for queries with generative answers
- $2500/month of indexing cost
- Total: $8,500/month
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