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Displaying External Content in a Sitecore Search Interface

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This option isn’t available to Coveo for Sitecore Free On-Premises clients, as the necessary crawlers aren’t available. For more information, see Coveo for Sitecore Editions and Pricing.

In addition to the items of your Sitecore Content Tree, a search interface built with Coveo for Sitecore components can return results coming from external systems (i.e., external to Sitecore).

There’s a specific section in a Coveo Search component that allows you to specify which sources in Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) should feed the search interface with their indexed items. This is how a search interface can mix search results coming from Sitecore and from external web pages.

There’s a specific section in a Coveo Search component that allows you to specify which sources in the Coveo Cloud should feed the search interface with their indexed items. This is how a search interface can mix search results coming from Sitecore and from external web pages.

This section presents the steps that you need to follow to present external content in your Coveo-powered search page.