Nixec is designed to be a scalable search engine with high quality search results over a rapidly growing World Wide Web. A number of techniques are employed to improve search quality including page rank, anchor text, and proximity information. Furthermore, Nixec is a complete architecture for gathering web pages, indexing them, and performing search queries over them. Nixec search engine is a complex system and much remains to be done. Our immediate goals are to improve search efficiency and web pages scale. Some simple improvements to efficiency include query caching, smart disk allocation, and sub indices. Another area which requires much research is updates. We must have smart algorithms to decide what old web pages should be re-crawled and what new ones should be crawled. Work toward this goal has been done.
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