The Architecture of the Obelix - An Improved Internet Search Engine

Contemporary Internet search engine can hardly cope with enormous amount of indexed data, and very seldom succeed in extracting useful information. In order to anticipate usefulness of a web page, proposed solution keeps track of users actions on a web page. A modified web client informs a dedicated server of users' actions performed on a web page, such as printing, bookmarking or mailing. Latter search algorithm relies on these information when ranking pages according to their usefulness. The paper describes the proposed paradigm in details, and focuses on the architecture of the server dedicated to collecting information users' actions. The server’s architecture is based on reconfigurable technology and VCC HOT II reconfigurable boards.