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The web, searched simply.
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Why Mugurdy
Search that stays out of your way
No account, no clutter, no profile built about you — just one box and the whole web on the other side.
Fast, focused results
Every query goes straight to Niguro's search engine and back with an answer.
The whole web
A general search front door for everything you look for, in every language.
The basics
How search engines work
Every engine, from the biggest to the smallest, does the same three jobs in the same order. Everything else is detail.
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Crawl
Software robots called crawlers follow links across the web, fetching page after page and adding new URLs to a queue. Robots.txt and sitemaps tell them where to look.
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Index
The fetched pages are parsed, cleaned and stored in an index — a data structure that maps every word to the pages that contain it, so a query can be answered in milliseconds.
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Rank
When you search, the engine retrieves matching documents and scores them using relevance, links, freshness and quality signals before drawing the results page.
One box. Every answer.
Mugurdy is a general web search experience. Niguro is the engine underneath.
Questions
Search engines, answered quickly
What is a search engine?
A search engine is a system that finds, stores and ranks web pages so it can return a useful list of results for a query. It works in three broad stages: crawling pages it discovers, indexing what it found, and ranking indexed pages against your words.
How does a search engine decide which page to show first?
Search engines score every indexed page against your query using signals such as relevance to the words you used, links and authority signals, freshness, page experience and the overall quality of the page. The highest-scoring pages appear first — and the order can differ between engines and between users.
How long does it take for a new page to be indexed?
It varies. A popular site with a healthy sitemap can be crawled and indexed within hours, while a new or rarely linked site can wait days or weeks. Submitting a sitemap in a search console, linking to the page internally and keeping the site fast all help.
Can a website pay to rank higher in organic results?
No. Organic results are ordered by ranking systems, not by payment. Ads are sold separately and are labelled as ads. Money can buy visibility through advertising, but it cannot buy an organic position.
What powers Mugurdy search?
Mugurdy is the front door: a simple homepage with one search box. When you search, your query is sent to Niguro, which performs the actual search and returns the results.
Glossary
Search engine vocabulary
The words you will meet again and again in the guides below.
- Crawler
- Also called a spider or bot. Software that fetches pages and follows links to discover new URLs.
- Robots.txt
- A file at the root of a site that tells crawlers which sections they may or may not fetch.
- Index
- The search engine's store of processed pages, organised so a query can be matched against them instantly.
- Query
- The words, phrase or question a user types into the search box.
- Ranking
- The ordering of results for a query, decided by scoring systems rather than a single list.
- SERP
- Search Engine Results Page — what you see after searching, including organic results and features such as panels and ads.
- Canonical URL
- The single URL a publisher nominates as the preferred version when several URLs show the same content.
- Backlink
- A link from another site to yours. Links remain one of the strongest authority signals in ranking.
- Sitemap
- An XML file listing a site's important URLs so crawlers can find them without guessing.
- Noindex
- A directive that asks search engines to keep a page out of their index entirely.