Local search in the Oracle Documentation

Dear Documentation Team,
As we know, the complete Oracle Documentation can be downloaded in HTML format and used locally. Unfortunately, it is not possible to search it locally in the comfortable way like it is done in the Internet version. Since all possible products like HTTP server etc. are available along with the Database, it would be very nice, if the documentation could be searched locally in the same way. I imagine something like that
1) put the complete documentation into the directory .\[name]
2) create index database for search
3) HTTP server must be running
4)
5) use URL http://the_host:5620/documentation/ to access and search the documentation
I think many people would appreciate this possibility.
Thanks for your attention

The 11g doc is still unable to provide us a local search.
Since we can download the HTML doc, we are able to build a doc webserver, and it could be practical for intranet usage to provide to the dev/dba team a full features doc.
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