• A Sitecore XM Cloud project set up
• Access to the Sitecore Search portal: https://search.sitecorecloud.io
• Your content should be published and exposed via headless (GraphQL or REST) endpoints 

Step-by-Step Integration 

• Use this if your content is public and accessible via URLs. 

•  If you use Sitecore Headless Services, provide an endpoint that returns a list of content in JSON (e.g., blog posts from GraphQL) 

Step 3: Define Schema and Facets 

1. Go to Schemas
2. Map the crawled fields to Sitecore Search schema (title, content, tags, etc.)
3. Set up facets (e.g., category, author) if needed

Step 4: Build Search UI (Frontend) 

• Use JavaScript SDK (easy to embed)
• Add this to your frontend: 

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@sitecore-search/js-sdk"></script>
Example (basic search box): 
<sitecore-search-search-box  
    api-key="your-api-key" 
    environment="prod" 
    placeholder="Search here..." 
></sitecore-search-search-box> 

• Search results
• Facets
• Pagination 

1. Go to Projects > Personalization
2. Add custom rules for:

• Index Document – A single piece of indexed content such as a webpage, a word document, a pdf, etc.
• Attributes – The fields of an indexed document such as title, subtitle, url, content type, etc.
• Textual Relevance – Defines the attributes used to locate potential results.
• Weight – Defines a relative value for how important an attribute is within the textual relevance.
• Analyzers – Convert the original search query into a format that is optimized for search.
• Token – A chunk of the original search query, usually a single word or phrase that is often modified by the analyzer to include synonyms, remove stop words and reformat to the root word.