diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@
     listing a forge, loading new stuff from a Git repository) and one-off
     activities (e.g., loading a specific version of a source package)
 
+:ref:`swh.search <swh-search>`
+    search engine for the archive
+
 :ref:`swh.storage <swh-storage>`
     abstraction layer over the archive, allowing to access all stored source
     code artifacts as well as their metadata
@@ -164,6 +167,7 @@
    swh.objstorage <swh-objstorage/index>
    swh.scanner <swh-scanner/index>
    swh.scheduler <swh-scheduler/index>
+   swh.search <swh-search/index>
    swh.storage <swh-storage/index>
    swh.vault <swh-vault/index>
    swh.web <swh-web/index>
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 swh.objstorage.replayer
 swh.scanner
 swh.scheduler
+swh.search
 swh.storage[schemata]
 swh.vault
 swh.web
diff --git a/swh/docs/sphinx/conf.py b/swh/docs/sphinx/conf.py
--- a/swh/docs/sphinx/conf.py
+++ b/swh/docs/sphinx/conf.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
 # This patterns also effect to html_static_path and html_extra_path
-exclude_patterns = ["_build", "swh-icinga-plugins/index.rst", "swh-search/index.rst"]
+exclude_patterns = ["_build", "swh-icinga-plugins/index.rst"]
 
 # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
 pygments_style = "sphinx"