Important Announcement

The JavaScript Search Engine has been superceded by Search Maker Pro.

Search Maker Pro will examine a whole web site, indexing all the pages that it finds.  It will then create a single HTML file that contains both these indexes and JavaScript to enable the indexes to be searched.

Search Maker Pro Features

  • Generated client search HTML file will work on any website (no access to web server required).

  • Indexes web sites on the Internet or on local storage (hard disk, CD, DVD etc).

  • Search results can be displayed in the same window, a new window or a new frame.

  • Search result page format is fully configurable (font type, font size, font color, background image, background color, link color, active link color, followed link color).

  • Full control over which pages to include or exclude from the indexes.

  • Full control over editing of indexes.

  • Alter the default sort order and amount of information that each search generates.

  • Generated JavaScript compatible with most common browsers (Internet Explorer v3,4 & 5, Netscape Navigator v3,4 & 5, other browsers using JavaScript 1.1).

  • Generate relative links, absolute links or virtual links (on local storage for later use on the Internet).

  • Wildcard search provisions.

  • User friendly interface for ease of use.

  • Save and load search configurations for easy maintenance of search pages.

  • Scalable to 100s of pages (the only limit is the power of the client's machine).

For users of the JavaScript Search Engine

It is recommended that you now use Search Maker Pro - it is free to use for small sites.  You no longer have to create each page index manually, the application will create traverse your web site for you and create the entire HTML page automatically.  If your web site changes then updating the search engine takes minutes!  In addition it supports displaying the results in a new window or frame, as well as allowing many formatting options.

The JavaScript Search Engine tool will be available for the foreseeable future.  Be aware that it contains JavaScript that is only compatible with newer version 4 browsers.  Search Maker Pro generates HTML code that is compatible with browsers version 3 and upwards.  Click here to access the original JavaScript Search Engine site.