From what I can glance from the post, this is a "poor man's" full-text search. It can search by keywords, but it does not seem to do stemming, word similarity, document similarity and all the nice things you love about Lucene and others. As far as the post explains, it also does not take term counts into account (which seems okay, as they don't have large documents). Also not sure how well it handles things like german umlauts (does "über" match "ueber"?).
There are libraries to handle stemming and Unicode equivalence which are easy to add into this kind of boolean search. If ranking documents would definitely mean that some other approach, e.g. vector space model, should be used.
