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Overview

One of the key pieces use cases AI can be leveraged for in a collaboration platform is searchsearching content in the workspace. This spec outlines the first phase of work to improve our search experience to make way for AI-powered search. The remaining work on improving the search experience can be found in the UX Spec for Enhanced Search.

The core problems we’re aiming to solve with this work:

• Provide customers with the powerful capability of topic-based semantic search across the workspace - rather than only the keyword-based search.

• Incorporate AI-powered search as a new method to search by topics or questions for answers across the workspace.

• Take initial steps toward a unified search experience to find channels, messages, files, and people that is forgiving, more intuitive, and eliminates the need to know which search modal to use for what you’re looking for.

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Add AI integrations for message search in a channel or a thread

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An updated global search modal that incorporates AI Copilot

We still want to keep the current search capabilities that exist today, but we’ll initially add a new search method. This helps make an incremental improvement rather than disorienting users with a complete overhaul.

Anatomy of the search modal

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