diff --git a/app/models/application_setting.rb b/app/models/application_setting.rb
index 35111be2b1b51ff086c0652221ad813955312b11..3f47c6ee83354455e921c5423dd39e79e70f2f26 100644
--- a/app/models/application_setting.rb
+++ b/app/models/application_setting.rb
@@ -707,6 +707,13 @@ def self.kroki_formats_attributes
 
   validates :sign_in_restrictions, json_schema: { filename: 'application_setting_sign_in_restrictions' }
 
+  jsonb_accessor :search,
+    global_search_merge_requests_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }],
+    global_search_work_items_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }],
+    global_search_users_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }]
+
+  validates :search, json_schema: { filename: 'application_setting_search' }
+
   jsonb_accessor :transactional_emails,
     resource_access_token_notify_inherited: [:boolean, { default: false }],
     lock_resource_access_token_notify_inherited: [:boolean, { default: false }]
diff --git a/app/validators/json_schemas/application_setting_search.json b/app/validators/json_schemas/application_setting_search.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f8ee71ab8692793855fca62e4848943cbb65c6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/validators/json_schemas/application_setting_search.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+  "description": "Application Settings for search",
+  "type": "object",
+  "additionalProperties": true,
+  "properties": {
+    "global_search_work_items_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for work items"
+    },
+    "global_search_merge_requests_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for merge requests"
+    },
+    "global_search_users_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for users"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/config/application_setting_columns/search.yml b/config/application_setting_columns/search.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..136c26bdfe964670cbaff9b9c7237da834ba0180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/application_setting_columns/search.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+api_type:
+attr: search
+clusterwide: false
+column: search
+db_type: jsonb
+default: "'{}'::jsonb"
+description:
+encrypted: false
+gitlab_com_different_than_default: true
+jihu: false
+not_null: true
diff --git a/db/migrate/20250108114357_add_global_search_settings_to_application_settings.rb b/db/migrate/20250108114357_add_global_search_settings_to_application_settings.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7dc52cd77f1bdf979cabf9a76d75b810eae4a17b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20250108114357_add_global_search_settings_to_application_settings.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class AddGlobalSearchSettingsToApplicationSettings < Gitlab::Database::Migration[2.2]
+  milestone '17.9'
+
+  def change
+    add_column :application_settings, :search, :jsonb, default: {}, null: false
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema_migrations/20250108114357 b/db/schema_migrations/20250108114357
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd9d049d7a0d592b62ab9fd77f7167d2bbcaed9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/schema_migrations/20250108114357
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+73b7e842e1d64c04554d34fa3e90e1cab9942f758e62321f77beb68da53909a3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/db/structure.sql b/db/structure.sql
index 4642dc53cd7cbed44c38bc7b9833c4d179eb4e75..74ec9db95e8856a207dace039d5ac33e65dcfe0e 100644
--- a/db/structure.sql
+++ b/db/structure.sql
@@ -7912,6 +7912,7 @@ CREATE TABLE application_settings (
     elasticsearch_indexed_file_size_limit_kb integer DEFAULT 1024 NOT NULL,
     elasticsearch_max_code_indexing_concurrency integer DEFAULT 30 NOT NULL,
     observability_settings jsonb DEFAULT '{}'::jsonb NOT NULL,
+    search jsonb DEFAULT '{}'::jsonb NOT NULL,
     CONSTRAINT app_settings_container_reg_cleanup_tags_max_list_size_positive CHECK ((container_registry_cleanup_tags_service_max_list_size >= 0)),
     CONSTRAINT app_settings_dep_proxy_ttl_policies_worker_capacity_positive CHECK ((dependency_proxy_ttl_group_policy_worker_capacity >= 0)),
     CONSTRAINT app_settings_ext_pipeline_validation_service_url_text_limit CHECK ((char_length(external_pipeline_validation_service_url) <= 255)),
diff --git a/ee/app/models/ee/application_setting.rb b/ee/app/models/ee/application_setting.rb
index a74deac5039ecdb1ed7c5e201f789d129ebfe844..d9a332f2b855b3435f3f0dfdec1cc159ee969540 100644
--- a/ee/app/models/ee/application_setting.rb
+++ b/ee/app/models/ee/application_setting.rb
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ module ApplicationSetting
       jsonb_accessor :clickhouse,
         use_clickhouse_for_analytics: [:boolean, { default: false }]
 
+      jsonb_accessor :search,
+        global_search_code_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }],
+        global_search_commits_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }],
+        global_search_wiki_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }],
+        global_search_snippet_titles_enabled: [:boolean, { default: true }]
+
       jsonb_accessor :zoekt_settings,
         zoekt_auto_delete_lost_nodes: [:boolean, { default: true }],
         zoekt_indexing_enabled: [:boolean, { default: false }],
@@ -276,6 +282,7 @@ module ApplicationSetting
         allow_nil: false,
         inclusion: { in: [true, false], message: N_('must be a boolean value') }
 
+      validates :search, json_schema: { filename: 'application_setting_search' }
       validates :zoekt_settings, json_schema: { filename: 'application_setting_zoekt_settings' }
       validates :zoekt_cpu_to_tasks_ratio, numericality: { greater_than: 0.0 }
 
diff --git a/ee/app/validators/json_schemas/application_setting_search.json b/ee/app/validators/json_schemas/application_setting_search.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dee8fc265ff5acc1b6a7ccec4f03e8114182193c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ee/app/validators/json_schemas/application_setting_search.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+  "description": "Application Settings for search",
+  "type": "object",
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "properties": {
+    "global_search_code_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for code"
+    },
+    "global_search_commits_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for commits"
+    },
+    "global_search_merge_requests_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for merge requests"
+    },
+    "global_search_work_items_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for work items"
+    },
+    "global_search_wiki_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for wikis"
+    },
+    "global_search_users_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for users"
+    },
+    "global_search_snippet_titles_enabled": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Enable global search for snippets"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/ee/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb b/ee/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb
index 512c0560a44026b2d42b9638769fccdde367963f..39aa912bc337949b3eca253023db1a152c1a4fbd 100644
--- a/ee/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb
+++ b/ee/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@
     it { expect(setting.hard_phone_verification_transactions_daily_limit).to eq(20000) }
     it { expect(setting.telesign_intelligence_enabled).to eq(true) }
     it { expect(setting.fetch_observability_alerts_from_cloud).to eq(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_code_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_commits_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_merge_requests_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_work_items_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_wiki_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_users_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_snippet_titles_enabled).to be(true) }
   end
 
   describe 'validations' do
@@ -688,6 +695,10 @@
       it { is_expected.not_to allow_value(nil).for(:instance_level_ai_beta_features_enabled) }
     end
 
+    describe 'search settings', feature_category: :global_search do
+      it { expect(described_class).to validate_jsonb_schema(['application_setting_search']) }
+    end
+
     describe 'zoekt settings', feature_category: :global_search do
       it { expect(described_class).to validate_jsonb_schema(['application_setting_zoekt_settings']) }
     end
diff --git a/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb b/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb
index d498c4bb3b82ada2dbf29c0815063dcec26c99d7..cde19ba6a9f79f9d17bd3b48b286495f59c813fb 100644
--- a/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/application_setting_spec.rb
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@
     it { expect(setting.resource_access_token_notify_inherited).to be(false) }
     it { expect(setting.lock_resource_access_token_notify_inherited).to be(false) }
     it { expect(setting.ropc_without_client_credentials).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_merge_requests_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_work_items_enabled).to be(true) }
+    it { expect(setting.global_search_users_enabled).to be(true) }
   end
 
   describe 'USERS_UNCONFIRMED_SECONDARY_EMAILS_DELETE_AFTER_DAYS' do
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@
       }
     end
 
+    it { expect(described_class).to validate_jsonb_schema(['application_setting_search']) }
     it { expect(described_class).to validate_jsonb_schema(['resource_usage_limits']) }
     it { expect(described_class).to validate_jsonb_schema(['application_setting_rate_limits']) }
     it { expect(described_class).to validate_jsonb_schema(['application_setting_package_registry']) }