This page is for helping Discovery for Media users switch to mediarecommendations.

What's changing?

Google is movingDiscovery for Media functionality tomedia recommendations, a capability ofVertex AI Search.

The documents and user events that you created using Discovery for Media remainunchanged. All of your existing data and models will automatically appear in theAI Applications console, the models appearing as apps. You can managethese resources in the AI Applications console and using the API. Thischange means that the same user data can be used for multipleVertex AI Search use cases, such as search, recommendations, andconversation.

Existing data and models will automatically appear in theAI Applications console, with the models appearing as apps. You canmanage these resources in the AI Applications console and using theAPI. This change means that the same user data can be used for multipleVertex AI Search use cases, such as search, recommendations, andconversation.

Media recommendations functionality in theDiscovery Engineconsole is now available in theAI Applicationsconsole. TheDiscovery Engine console was deprecated at the end ofMarch 2024. The API is unchanged, so your API calls will continue working afterthe Discovery Engine console is deprecated.

Summary of changes:

• The API remains the same. For up-to-date reference documentation, seeAPIsand reference in the Vertex AI Search documentation.

• Media recommendations functionality in theDiscovery Engineconsole is now available in theAI Applications console.

• The Discovery Engine console page is deprecated.

• Models in Discovery for Media are replaced byrecommendationstypes in media recommendations apps. You can have one only onerecommendation type per app, but you can connect multiple apps to the samedata store. For more information, seeCreate a media datastore andCreate media apps.

• You can create multiple serving configs per app with different settings forrecommendations demotion and recommendations diversity. However, you can'tattach models to serving configs anymore.

  If you have a model that is associated with multiple serving configs, Googlesuggests that you continue using Discovery for Media until this feature isavailable with media recommendations. For more information, seeDemote mediarecommendations andDiversify mediarecommendations.

• You can have multiple data stores in the same project.

• Data stores contain both documents and user events.

• There is noManual tune only setting in media recommendations apps, asthere is for models in Discovery for Media. All media recommendations appscreated using Vertex AI Search are automatically tuned every threemonths, and there is no setting to change this. This means that by defaultyour apps will tune every three months. If you want to change theTuningstatus for a model that you created in Discovery for Media, do so beforeDiscovery for Media is deprecated.

What's not changing?

• All of your documents, user events, models, and settings in Discovery forMedia persist in media recommendations apps and data stores.

• All of the APIs remain the same.

• The Discovery Engine console page will no longer be updated with newfeatures.

What's next?

• Familiarize yourself withVertex AI SearchandVertex AI Search for media.

• Open theAI Applications consoleand see how your data, models, and configurations are represented.

• Try out media recommendations:

  • Import data into a media data store.
  • Create media apps.
  • Get media recommendations