Already had to submit a last minute (0.1.01) patch for windows. None the less, Vicaya has passed proof-of-concept, and has been tested on several platforms. The latest release includes example content and search indices. I thought it might be a sober exercise to document the past and the foreseeable future:
Vicaya Search
Specification:
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Web content on a CDROM
Web [...]

For the past few months I’ve been playing with index and search optimizations (and approximations) in order to search a local corpus quickly (without running out of memory) from a typical web browser. I’ve learned quite a lot about search algorithms, but most significantly: They’re really complex.
I had come up with a number of solutions [...]

A year ago, I took it upon myself to help make a searchable CDROM of a website. The corpus consists of entirely (or mostly) plain vanilla HTML, in the area of 5000 documents, weighing less than 40 megabytes. Ideally, the search could be performed in any web browser, on any platform, with no installation, running [...]