Nishi vs the Field -- Web Search and Crawling

How this is scored. Every Nishi cell is measured: the generator reads the real organ source on disk and requires the implementing symbol to exist (no self-grading). Competitor cells record documented capability presence. Best=leads this axis, Yes=present, Part=partial, No=absent. This is capability presence, not depth or scale: the majors lead on index size and neural ranking. Nishi's genuine exceeds are the sovereignty / neutrality / determinism axes.

Capability	Nishi	Mojeek	Brave	Google	Marginalia	Notes
BM25 relevance ranking	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Integer Okapi BM25 (idf_q10); every engine ranks
Inverted index	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Classic posting-list index
Phrase / positional search	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Part	Positional postings (NXQ1 sidecar)
Stemming / morphology	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Part	Porter-lite query+index stemming
Dense / vector retrieval	Yes	No	Part	Yes	No	Integer cosine k-NN; Google neural, Brave partial
Own independent crawler	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Sovereign TLS crawler; all run their own crawl
Web-graph authority (PageRank)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Best	Part	Integer power-iteration; Google invented it
HTML content extraction	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Block-aware boilerplate strip
Common Crawl ingest (index-only)	Yes	No	No	Part	Part	CDX + range-fetch, Memex-style; majors use own crawl
Deep-research answer loop	Yes	No	Part	Best	No	Fetch to read QA; Google AI Overviews, Brave answers
Neural rerank / trained encoder	No	No	Part	Best	No	Cross-encoder rerank; Nishi's number-one gap
Web-scale index (billions+)	No	Yes	Yes	Best	Yes	Mojeek/Brave billions, Google trillions; Nishi ~10^3 slice
JS-rendered crawling	No	Part	Part	Best	No	Headless render; Nishi static-HTML only
Sovereign -- own language, compiler, TLS, index (zero third-party)	Best	No	No	No	Part	No Python/C/cloud beneath; Marginalia lean but on JVM/Linux
Neutral by construction -- no ads, no profiling, down-rank not delete	Best	Part	Part	No	Part	Quality filter demotes slop, never censors; Google ad-ranked + profiled
Zero-JS, zero-tracker, integer-deterministic SERP	Best	No	No	No	No	About 5 KB no-JS page, bit-reproducible results

Honest verdict. Nishi has broad, sovereign search-engine presence — a real organ behind every core ranking and crawl axis, built bits-up in one language. It is not yet a scale or neural-ranking rival: the majors lead on index size (billions to trillions vs a Common-Crawl-seeded slice) and trained rerankers. Nishi's genuine exceeds are structural — owning the whole stack, neutrality by construction, and a zero-JS integer-deterministic result page. The climb is a bigger index and a trained reranker.

Generated by nx_swcompare_matrix (sovereign NishiLang organ) from knowledge/compare/search.matrix — every Nishi cell verified against real organ source on disk. Zero JS, zero trackers.