About advanced features

When you are creating search apps and data stores, you have the option to turn on various advanced settings to get additional features. Here are the advanced features that are available:

Overview

The following table shows Agent Search features and indicates the advanced settings that are required for each feature:

Feature Requires
Website search (basic website search and advanced website indexing) Enterprise edition
CMEK (customer-managed encryption keys) Enterprise edition
Snippets for unstructured search No requirements
Extractive answers for unstructured search Enterprise edition
Extractive segments for unstructured search Enterprise edition
Core generative answer features* Enterprise edition
Advanced generative answer features Advanced LLM features
Search summarization without advanced generative answer features Enterprise edition
Search summarization with advanced generative answer features Advanced LLM features
Search tuning for unstructured data stores Enterprise edition

* Core generative answer features include all answer generation features except for advanced generative answer features, such as related questions, query simplification, multi-step queries, multi-turn queries, and multimodal answers that return images and charts.
Advanced generative answer features include all answer generation features including related questions, query simplification, multi-step queries, multi-turn queries, and multimodal answers that return images and charts.

Enterprise edition features

Enterprise edition features add functionality at the app level. Enterprise tier features incur additional cost. For more information, see Pricing. Turning on Enterprise edition features is required for the following features:

In addition, turning on Enterprise edition features is required for website search. That is, Enterprise edition features are required for any Agent Search app that uses website data (basic website search and advanced website indexing). This setting can't be turned off for apps that are attached to website data stores.

If you turn off Enterprise edition for an existing app, any features in your app that require Enterprise edition will no longer work.

To change this setting for an existing app, see Turn Enterprise edition on or off.

Generative responses

Generative responses include the following advanced LLM features. You must turn on the Generative responses option to obtain search responses with these features:

Generative responses incur additional costs. For more information, see Pricing.

If you turn off the Generative responses option for an existing app, any functionality in your app that requires advanced LLM features no longer works.

To change this setting for an existing app, see Turn generative responses on or off.

Advanced website indexing

Turning on advanced website indexing generates an index for the websites that you specify when you create your data store. This requires domain verification and imposes a quota on the number of pages that you can index. You can