This search engine has been pulled from the dregs of time. It was origionally hosted:
here
and is extant but for the
Way Back Machine.
I wrote this client-side search engine in JavaScript sometime around 1998 (hard to remember!) when I was about 15 years old. At one time
it was used on many websites. So, to see if anyone was still using this, I did a few vanity searches:
This One
and
This One. Short story, yes, a few people. But what's truly remarkable is that my little search engine was mentioned in a book that was published in 1999 and I never new it! The book
JavaScript Application Cookbook
by Jerry Bradenbaugh tacitly mentions my humble little search engine on page 417 or so (via Google Books search) and says :
The Computer Crap Search Engine:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/2188/search.html
I've seen more creative titles, but author Nathan Wiegand uses similar coding to the one discussed here.
Wow, I'm honored.
So, here it is, to live forever in it's origional glory -- unchanged, warty, and buggy: