Ok, so I looked into Algolia but frankly, their services seemed like total overkill (for me anyway) and their instructions made my brain hurt.
“Set up your optimized relevance engine by exporting your databse to our cloud based matrix API cluster and syncing it to our indices engine blah blah blah …
Huh? No.
So I checked out Google search. I knew you didn’t have to upload anything but I wasn’t sure if you could hide their branding and style your own search bar and results. You can. For $100 a year. Not bad.
So I figured out how to do it and got it working and wrote a tutorial. Here’s how you do it: