Nishi Compare -- Frontier Radar: Web Search, Crawling and Deep Research

Where the 2025/26 research frontier is moving, and where Nishi should test, deepen, or research next.

How this works. The nishi researcher banked the current (2024-2026) frontier for this domain over sovereign TLS (keyless OpenAlex/arXiv). For each capability axis this radar measures frontier momentum = how often the frontier corpus mentions it, times our organ presence (probed on disk). Absent + hot = a research opportunity / where to test. Corpus measured: 1822061 bytes. Generated by nx_swcompare_gapmap over a data-only domain spec (search.q + search.axes) — zero domain-specific code.

Capability axis	Nishi organ	Frontier momentum (2025/26)	Signal
Deep-research fetch-and-read loop	present	20 mentions	COVERED
Neural rerank / trained encoder	absent	8 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Frontier-persisted crawl	present	3 mentions	COVERED
Deep-research RL agent	absent	3 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Unicode / accent folding	present	2 mentions	COVERED
Dense vector retrieval	present	2 mentions	COVERED
PageRank authority	present	1 mentions	COVERED
Sovereign crawler (TLS)	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Byte-range fetch	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Phrase and positional search	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Common Crawl ingest	present	0 mentions	COVERED
HTML content extraction	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Hybrid rank fusion	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Anti-slop quality filter	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Fuzzy / did-you-mean	present	0 mentions	COVERED
BM25 ranking (integer)	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Inverted index	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Web-scale index (billions)	absent	0 mentions	dormant
JS-rendered crawling	absent	0 mentions	dormant
Stemming	present	0 mentions	COVERED

frontier momentum is a mechanical keyword count over real 2024-2026 works; our presence is probed on disk. A discovery signal, not a ranking of importance. Zero JS, zero trackers.

Frontier Radar — Web Search, Crawling and Deep Research