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title: Setting up search on your website
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-azure-cognitive-search.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-locally-stored-search-indexes.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Xperience provides an index-based search solution, which allows users to search through the content of websites and various types of data within the system.

You can choose between two different approaches – Azure Cognitive Search and local indexes.

## Azure Cognitive Search

- Indexed content is stored using the cloud-based [Azure Cognitive Search](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search/)
- Wide range of features, including [faceted navigation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-faceted-navigation), search result scoring, language analysis, etc.
- Requires an Azure Cognitive Search service subscription (paid except for limited search scenarios, the price depends on the selected [Pricing tier](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/search/))
- Search queries can target only one search index

To learn more, see the [Using Azure Cognitive Search](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-azure-cognitive-search.md) sub-chapter.

## Locally stored search indexes

- Search indexes are stored as files on the web server's file system
- Offers multiple specialized index types (indexes covering custom table or form data by default, indexes with custom developer functionality)
- Searches can target multiple indexes

To learn more, see the [Using locally stored search indexes](https://docs.kentico.com/13/configuring-xperience/setting-up-search-on-your-website/using-locally-stored-search-indexes.md) sub-chapter.