From the course: Microsoft 365 Copilot: Architectural Components
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Semantic index for Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft 365 Copilot: Architectural Components
Semantic index for Copilot
- [Narrator] Even before Microsoft ever created CoPilot, Microsoft 365 relied heavily on the use of indexing. Consider, for example, what happens when a user searches for Microsoft 365 content. The search begins with a user entering a set of keywords. Those keywords are then compared against an index within Microsoft Graph, and that index maps to a set of documents or locations within documents. During this whole process, the data remains protected by role-based access control, so that a search never reveals anything that a user doesn't already have access to. Now, it's worth noting that the search results are not determined solely by keyword matches. Microsoft Graph also attempts to determine which of the potential search results are the most relevant. And the way that it does that is by looking at some additional signals. For example, graph might look at whether the content was created by another user that this user currently collaborates with. Microsoft refers to this method of…
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