Abstract: The birth of search engine brings great convenience and benefits for information collection, but the development for a set of complete and mature search engine needs to consume a large amount of resources, this paper focuses on how to quickly build a simple search engine. Based on the search engine components and frameworks which are independently developed and provided by open source organizations, the Java API on JBuilder development platform is called to quickly build a simple full-text search engine composed of three major components of the data capture, indexing and search, which realizes the webpage document data capture and preservation, text extraction, establishment of index documents and index databases, basic keyword search and other functions, and describes the general process of search engine achievement and operation.

Key words: information, search engine, full-text search