# Semantic Search API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 20, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113 "2023-03-20T21:36:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@rpmansion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rpmansion)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/1 "2023-03-20T21:36:17Z")
There is a semantic search API endpoint (/index\_name/\_semantic-search) that was released in the documentation, what is the reason this was removed?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/2 "2023-03-20T23:56:13Z")
I can't see that in the documentation sorry, but do you mean [k-nearest neighbor (kNN) search | Elasticsearch Guide [8.6] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.6/knn-search.html)?
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### Author:  [@rpmansion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rpmansion)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/3 "2023-03-21T00:31:07Z")
Well, it was removed. There is an endpoint something like \_semantic-search that you can do in an index.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/4 "2023-03-21T00:38:10Z")
What version did you see it in?
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### Author:  [@rpmansion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rpmansion)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/5 "2023-03-21T03:47:43Z")
If I'm not mistaken v8.5
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/6 "2023-03-21T04:05:28Z")
I can't find a reference to this in GitHub about it. Unless you can find something concrete then not sure we can help sorry.
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### Author:  [@droberts195](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/droberts195)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/7 "2023-03-21T09:50:43Z")
The `_semantic_search` endpoint existed in code for a while but was never released.
You would have seen it mentioned in docs with the yellow banner at the top saying, "You are looking at preliminary documentation for a future release. Not what you want? See the [current release documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html)."
We decided that instead of having a separate `_semantic_search` endpoint we'd be better off integrating the functionality into the standard `_search` endpoint. This was done in [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/93531](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/93531). The docs for it were added in [[DOCS] Adds semantic search section to kNN search page by szabosteve · Pull Request #93782 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/93782). So you can read the docs for the upcoming `text_embedding` query type already in [k-nearest neighbor (kNN) search | Elasticsearch Guide [master] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/knn-search.html#semantic-search). However, once again you'll see the yellow banner at the top of this page, and you must be aware that unreleased functionality will not necessarily ever be released.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/8 "2023-03-21T20:52:25Z")
Thanks for clarifying!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search-api/328113/9 "2023-04-18T20:53:22Z")
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