# AzureCognitiveSearchRetriever

> **Class** in `langchain_azure_ai`

📖 [View in docs](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain-azure-ai/retrievers/azure_ai_search/AzureCognitiveSearchRetriever)

`Azure Cognitive Search` service retriever.

This version of the retriever will soon be
depreciated. Please switch to AzureAISearchRetriever.

## Signature

```python
AzureCognitiveSearchRetriever()
```

## Extends

- `AzureAISearchRetriever`

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[View source on GitHub](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain-azure/blob/7a6a664d617264df8dcb12fcfb1bacc09f21d504/libs/azure-ai/langchain_azure_ai/retrievers/azure_ai_search.py#L236)