The Alkaline Search Engine is an all-in-one index and search server. Adding a search engine to your web site eases navigation and helps your customers locate exactly the information they are looking for in seconds.
It is, on one hand, a stand-alone web spider that can collect data from local and remote sites following a precise set of rules and using a variety of options defined by the search engine administrator. On the other hand, Alkaline offers users, navigating through a web site, a fast and relevant tool for searching hundreds of thousands indexed documents in a blink of an eye.
Alkaline is a spider. The search engine administrator defines the initial url(s), which Alkaline should index, and a set of rules such as the maximum indexing depth or links not to follow or to exclude. Alkaline will retrieve such an url, parse the document, index it's content, and extract all links available from the HTML code. It will then follow these links and restart the same process for each new page. This allows to index a full web site, a subset or a specific set of individual documents.
Alkaline is a searcher. The webmaster can incorporate a search box with a set of advanced options to any page on the site. Users can enter words to search for. A whole set of advanced rules and options is available. Alkaline will then output results using a search template defined by the search engine administrator. These results will have the look and feel of the entire site.