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Search Box Scope of Standard sites in SP Online Tenant
hi TarunHCC​ Setting a Home Site mainly affects the search experience of the Home Site itself, not all other SharePoint sites in the tenant.
So after configuring the Home Site using:
Set-PnPHomeSite -HomeSiteUrl "https://sharepoint.com"
the expected behavior is:
The Home Site search bar will search across the entire tenant (organization-wide search)
A standard SharePoint site (non-home site) will continue to use its normal search scope
So standard sites will still typically search:
The current site
Or the connected Hub scope (if the site is associated to a Hub)
They do not automatically become tenant-wide search sites just because a Home Site was configured.
So your understanding is correct only the Home Site gets the tenant-wide search experience by default.