Just came across the azure-ai-search tag while working the suggested edit queue, and it appears this name refers to the same service as azure-cognitive-search, which was rebranded to the former in late 2023:
This service has had multiple names over the years. Here they are in reverse chronological order:
- Azure AI Search (November 2023) Renamed to align with Azure AI services and customer expectations.
- Azure Cognitive Search (October 2019) Renamed to reflect the expanded (yet optional) use of cognitive skills and AI processing in service operations.
- Azure Search (March 2015) The original name.
Microsoft's incessant obsession with renaming services aside... can we handle this so we don't have both tags?
It looks like for the 2019 rebrand, we renamed the (then) current tag and created a synonym of the old name to the new. It seems important to keep the old names synonymized to the new, so maybe we do the same today?
For reference, azure-cognitive-search has far more questions than azure-ai-search does, and it also has a wiki (though poor), while the latter does not.
