Free vs. Workspace Google Sites - What's the Difference?

• Google Workspace domain only templates gallery

• Expiration dates on sharing editor access

• Search settings with Google Cloud for this site, organization content and hiding the Google Sites search engine entirely.

• You can hide the search option in the Search Settings

• Google Vault support for backup of Sites content

About Google Cloud Search and Google Sites

Google Cloud Search is like a search engine for your Google Workspace information, documents and resources. Sign in to Cloud Search at cloudsearch.google.com if you are using non-starter edition Google Workspace accounts. 

You can use Google Cloud Search to search across multiple Google Sites. Cloud Search operators can also be utilized with search queries or pre-programmed embedded search widgets to narrow search results. Here are the specific operators related to Google Sites:

• source:sites

• filetype:

• site:

• you can employ multiple operators like site:(

Example query: guidelines site:(sites.google.com/domain.org/intranet OR sites.google.com/domain.org/hr)

https://support.google.com/cloudsearch/answer/6172299#zippy=%2Ccloud-search-operators