HouseSpider is a Java applet that adds indexing and search capability to website

HouseSpider was developed by Keith L. Jackson - up to and including version 4.0 - and later by Hans Fr. Nordhaug. HouseSpider is an Java applet that adds indexing and search capability to your web site. It may also run as a stand-alone application. HouseSpider can search by two methods, by spidering through your site or by searching a cached index file. Spider-searching is slow, but very easy to set up and requires no maintenance. Cache-searching requires only a Little more attention to set-up and is very fast, sometimes even FASTER than server-hosted cgi programs. HouseSpider also supports compression (in zip-format) of the index file. HouseSpider has 100% support for i18n (internationalization). It is already translated to several languages. Finally, you can write your website using any charset - HouseSpider can handle it. And best of all - it is free! HouseSpider handles all html character Entities as defined by html 4.0, it allows character entities in the title, href, and meta tags, and it is really fast. Also, format character entities are down-converted (in the index file) to standard conterparts: