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Vertex AI Search and Conversation: full course guide

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.

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01Vertex 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

02E-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

03Conversation & 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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