Cloud Computing

Vertex AI Search and Conversation (GCP)

Google's no-code RAG solution. Deploy a production-ready search engine for an e-commerce site using Google's pre-indexed retail models in under 30 minutes.

Level: IntermediateCloud Computing

What You'll Learn

Vertex AI Search: managed search and RAG on GCP
Data stores: website, structured, and unstructured
Retail search model with pre-built recommendations
Conversation agents built on Vertex AI Conversation
Grounding LLM answers with your own data
Deploying an e-commerce search engine without ML ops
Evaluating search quality with ranking metrics

What's Included

🧭AI Tutor🔒

Interactive learning path with AI-generated lessons read aloud by your personal tutor

🧪Practice Lab🔒

Step-by-step lab instructions with AI guidance — run in your own IDE or sandbox.

🎙️Mock Interviews🔒

AI interviewer asks tailored questions, gives real-time feedback and a score report

📝Evaluation🔒

MCQ questions (theory, practical, code) to test your knowledge and earn a badge

⚔️Challenge AI🔒

Compete head-to-head against AI on real production problems — judged on correctness, performance, scalability, code quality, and edge cases

Course Syllabus

Module 1: Vertex AI Search Overview

  • •Vertex AI Search vs building your own RAG
  • •Data store types: web crawl, BigQuery, GCS, inline
  • •Indexing and serving architecture on GCP
  • •IAM setup and project configuration
  • •Pricing and quota considerations

Module 2: E-Commerce Search Engine

  • •Importing a product catalog into a structured data store
  • •Enabling retail search with pre-built ranking models
  • •Personalisation and user event ingestion
  • •Query API: search, autocomplete, and recommendations
  • •A/B testing search configurations

Module 3: Conversation & Grounding

  • •Vertex AI Conversation: multi-turn chat on your data
  • •Grounding LLM responses to your data store
  • •Fallback handling for out-of-scope queries
  • •Embedding Vertex AI Search into a Next.js frontend
  • •Capstone: e-commerce search + chat widget deployed in 30 minutes

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✓AI Tutor
✓Practice Lab
✓Mock Interviews
✓Evaluation
✓Challenge AI