About Mugurdy
Mugurdy is an old search engine brought back to life — one box, fast answers, and notes explaining how the machine behind it actually works.
Mugurdy was one of those small, stubborn search projects from an earlier era of the web: plain, fast, and unapologetically simple. It showed previews of pages next to results and asked very little of its visitors. For a while it went quiet, as so many independent search engines did.
Today Mugurdy has been revived. The name and the idea are back: a search page that gets out of your way. One box, one button, and the whole web on the other side — no categories, no clutter, no account, no profile built about you.
Powered by Niguro
Mugurdy now lives under the Niguro umbrella. When you search here, your query goes straight to Niguro, which handles the hard part: crawling and indexing the web, ranking results, and keeping the service running. Mugurdy is the front door; Niguro is the engine.
That division of labour is also why this site is honest about the pipeline. Anyone publishing on the web benefits from knowing what happens after they hit publish — how a crawler decides to visit, why an index might ignore a page, and what ranking systems are actually weighing up. Our guides exist to explain that clearly, without the folklore.
What we publish
- The search homepage. Fast, uncluttered, powered by Niguro.
- Eight guides on crawling, indexing, ranking, queries, SEO, spam and search history.
- Nothing else. No feeds to farm, no accounts to create, no infinite scroll to lose an afternoon in.
What we believe
- Search should be simple. A box, results, and nothing else competing for attention.
- Your searches are yours. We do not build advertising profiles, and there are no accounts to link them to.
- Independent search matters. The web is better with more doors into it.
- Explaining the machinery is part of being useful — hence the guides.
How this site is built
Mugurdy is a static website: plain HTML, CSS and a single small JavaScript file. That means the pages are fast, they work without scripts, and search engines can read every word. The search footer and header links to Niguro are ordinary links, and the search box simply hands your query to Niguro's results page.