[SalesForce] Can not create Force.com site via Ant tool

To deploy a Search Layout, you must deploy the CustomObject itself. All not-required tags can be stripped, but there is no way to simply deploy a search layout without the object.

This means you'd need something like this:

package.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
  <types>
    <members>Account</members>
    <name>CustomObject</name>
  </types>
  <version>35.0</version>
</Package>

objects/Account.object:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CustomObject xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <enableEnhancedLookup>true</enableEnhancedLookup>
    <enableFeeds>true</enableFeeds>
    <enableHistory>false</enableHistory>
    <searchLayouts>
       <!-- as per description in the documentation -->
    </searchLayouts>
    <sharingModel>Private</sharingModel>
</CustomObject>

Gosh! This works: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_custommetadata.htm#meta_custommetadata

<types>
    <members>*</​members>
    <name>CustomMetadata</name>
</types>

I just had some invisible character ( &​#8203; Unicode Character 'ZERO WIDTH SPACE' (U+200B) http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200b/index.htm ) copied from documentation between small 'm' and capitalised 'M':

<types>
    <members>*</​members>
    <name>Custom​Metadata</name>
</types>