Try it!

Try this working demo of Vertex AI Search, indexed on this documentation site. It retrieves search results and provides AI-generated answers based on the results. You can search with keywords or natural language queries.

To get an AI-generated answer, ask a complete question like What is Vertex AI Search? or What are the features of custom search?

Key capabilities and configurations

Vertex AI Search offers the following key capabilities and configurations:

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Vertex AI Search offers the search and recommendations in the following business areas:

Product name terminology

Vertex AI Search is a child product of AI Applications. Because this documentation set only discusses Vertex AI Search. The name AI Applications is used on the Google Cloud Console UI and in the documentation to discuss the UI page.

Behind the scenes, Vertex AI Search uses the Discovery Engine API. When you run curl commands or programmatically use the API, you see references to the discoveryengine.googleapis.com endpoint. The Gemini Enterprise product also uses the Discovery Engine API.

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Last updated 2026-01-27 UTC.