Do I need to sanitize $_POST[‘keyword’] before send to ‘s’ parameter?

You can use below WordPress function to sanitize the value:

sanitize_text_field( $_POST['keyword'] );

You can also check more detail here:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/sanitize_text_field/

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