# How are you implementing site search

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-are-you-implementing-site-search/986>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [March 29, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-are-you-implementing-site-search/986 "2015-03-29T12:53:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-are-you-implementing-site-search/986/14 "2015-04-13T21:18:05Z")

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Thanks for writing that up sebz. Doing this outside of Hugo makes sense to me. Though I do feel like Hugo has a lot of logic already built out that would be needed for generating the index file, so in a way it’s a shame that Hugo can’t do the generation.

I left a few comments on your gist.

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