AI Mode Site Search

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Tharindu Gunawardana from Search Ministry has discovered a cool feature in Vertex AI:

Looks like we can now test and fine-tune AI Mode in Vertex AI > Vertex AI Mode, using our own website content. This also confirms the process of how AI Mode works (Simplified version )
Prepare > Retrieve > Signal > Serve

I’ll be investigating it and documenting my progress on this page.

Website search app configuration

Enterprise edition features

In addition to the standard features, you get:

  • Extractive answers – answers that are extracted verbatim from your documents
  • Image search, where you can use an image as a query
  • Website search
  • Core generative answers

Turning on Enterprise edition features is required for website search. To get higher refresh frequency, lower latency, search summaries and more features in addition to website data, you need to turn on advanced website indexing.

You can change this setting at any time.

After turning on Enterprise features, it can take up to five minutes for the features to become available.

Learn more about features and prices 

Advanced LLM features

For structured, unstructured and advanced website search, you get:

  • Search summarisation
  • Search with follow-ups
  • Advanced generative answers

Advanced LLM features are not available for basic website search.\n You can change this setting at any time.

After turning on advanced LLM features, it can take up to five minutes for the features to become available.

Learn more about features and prices 

Basic Setup Steps

Search type

Select the type of search experience that the widget provides.

Search with follow-ups

Large language models for summarisation

Try out different models to see which one works the best for youStable

Default model. Learn more about the current default model Gemini 2.0 Flash 1 new

The Vertex AI gemini-2.0-flash-001 model  with additional training for Q&A taskGemini 1.5 Flash 2

The Vertex AI gemini-1.5-flash-002 model  with additional training for Q&A taskGemini 1.5 Flash 1 V2

The Vertex AI gemini-1.5-flash-001 model  with additional training for Q&A task (version 2)Gemini 1.5 Pro preview

The Vertex AI 1M token context window model. Learn more about Gemini 1.5 Pro 

Customise the summary

Give instructions to customise the tone, style and verbosity of the generative summary

Summary language preview

Choose the language of the summary

English

Enable related questions

Controls whether the generative summary suggests related questions.

Ignore no answer summary for query

Don’t show ‘We do not have a summary for your query’ if the query returns no answers for non-product questions on the widget.

Ignore adversarial query

Prevent LLM answers on adversarial queries.

Ignore low relevant content

Prevent LLM answers with low relevant content.

Image in answers preview

Choose a source for the image returned in the answer

No results are available until Google’s datastore indexes the content.


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