What is the primary purpose of Azure Cognitive Search?

The primary purpose of Azure Cognitive Search is to enable indexing and searching of large datasets. This service allows developers to integrate sophisticated search capabilities into their applications, leveraging its powerful features to manage and retrieve information effectively from diverse data sources. With Azure Cognitive Search, users can create search indexes that facilitate fast and relevant search results, catering to complex queries. The platform supports various search capabilities including full-text search, filtering, faceting, and sorting, which enhances the user's ability to discover content quickly and efficiently.

While analyzing user data patterns, supporting machine translation, and providing real-time data processing are important functionalities in their respective domains, they do not encapsulate the core function of Azure Cognitive Search, which is specifically designed for searching and indexing data to improve the search experience for users.