Searchlight is a compact stand-alone search engine designed for use on any small or medium-sized Web site consisting of multiple pages. By entering keywords or phrases, users can search specified pages on your site (and pages at any other URLs you choose).

Searchlight can search an unlimited number of pages, and present an unlimited number of results. In order to speed up the retrieval and search process, you can also gather the pages to be searched into a single file and ensure that this file is cached for immediate use, or create a dedicated keywords file. Searchlight's search results can, of course, be clicked to open the corresponding web page or file.

Searchlight's compact design makes it ideal for slotting into the narrow left frame of a frameset, allowing the pages found by the search to be opened into the frameset's main frame. Similarly, Searchlight could be opened in a separate 'satellite' window, to open search results in a new window.