No. Not at all. Alkaline is written in C++ and was designed with several goals:
be very fast for hundreds of thousands of pages
match partial words and not only full ones
index and search an unlimited number of remote sites
be an easy to configure complete all-in-one spider and searcher
allow any fully customizable output and results layout
be easily portable between Unix and Windows platforms
Here's what the original author, Daniel Doubrovkine, has to say:
I started writing Alkaline after weeks of fighting
with a dozen of other search engines. I couldn't get a remote site searched properly.
Then, those engines that could do the job would become either unusable after a couple thousand
pages indexed or would be simply too expensive for my client.
With version 1.1, a new fast search/index algorithm, written by Hassan Sultan was introduced.
Alkaline has been constantly improved since the first versions and is always under intensive development.
