The invention relates to the technical field of search engines, specifically relating to a distributed real-time search engine. A system construction and operation method of the search engine at least comprises the following steps: A, designing a functional structure of a system; B, designing a data index structure of the system; C, creating an index; D, updating the index; and E, searching the index. The distributed real-time search engine can construct an updating index and a combining index simultaneously in the memory of the system, and can access the updating index and the combining index simultaneously while searching the index; when the number of the documents of the updating index is accumulated to a threshold value, the updating index is submitted to a disk index and changed as a combining index, and the original combining index is changed as a new updating index; and therefore, the updating data can be searched, and the real time property of the retrieval data of the search engine can be improved.