It's still being written, but it's getting close to something that we can test. There's bound to be some bugs with it so they should be added here. Once we've got an alpha ready we should run the conversion/search index script on ftest and open it up for testing.
What is this search engine exactly? Has there since been any progress on it?
Re-assigning since forum-mods@ can not do anything about this at present time. Closing since this doesn't seem like something to pursue any longer.