Searching the documentation on the website?

On the new website, is it possible to search the documentation? And if so, should this be more discoverable?

One issue I’ve found is that when a user gets to the website, and they want to search something like “Declarative package management” (because what they don’t know they’re looking for is pkgs.buildEnv or home-manager), and they search using the top right search icon, they’re immediately given only the nixos configuration options or a list of matching packages.

Currently, the way that I “search” the documentation is to open each of the pages individually and search through them. As someone who has been using nix for awhile, I know which manual is likely to have the answer. I’ve heard feedback from other users that they expect this to more easily searchable.

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