I've googled this and searched the forums and found no definitive answer.

I see there may be a blog search plugin but if much of the site content is going to be created in Pages, the search needs to work on this also.

Most of the forum posts on this topic have little or no response. Anybody implemented a search solution or know of a straight forward way to implement this?

Do you mean you search for a search functionality for your whole site?

Currently developing a search plugin that indexes all site content. I used this Laravel search library to get started which has been recommended in some other posts as well: https://github.com/mmanos/laravel-search This part was surprisingly easy to set up using the ZendSearch library as a driver. I'm now stuck on hooking into relevant events to get stuff indexed properly. I don't think there's any other way than doing it yourself at this point.

Great stuff, how's it going?

A new plugin called 'SiteSearch' was launched recently. It works really well.

https://octobercms.com/plugin/offline-sitesearch

Awesome, thanks for the link Andy, will take a look

I've managed to get it working but had to do a lot of customisation to get it right. I'm nowhere near to spinning it off as a plugin like SiteSearch. You can see it in action at www.istandaarden.nl. My biggest problem at this point is that I had to make modifications to the Pages and Blog plugins to register changes on content for indexation. Now I need to update those manually to make sure everything keeps working.