What is this
DuckDuckGo is quite famous search system open source. Servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia.
The better
DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that provides maximum privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about the user, does not store logs (no search history), and the use of cookies is as limited as possible.
DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo
Why do you need this
All major search engines are trying to personalize search results based on data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called the “filter bubble”: the user sees only those results that are consistent with his preferences or that the system deems as such.
Forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the Internet, and eliminates Google and Yandex thematic advertising based on your queries. With DuckDuckGo it's easy to search for information on foreign languages, while Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the request is entered in another language.
What is this
not Evil is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example by launching a specialized .
not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the clear hint from Google (just look at the start page).
The better
It searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are generally closed.
Why do you need this
The Tor network contains many resources that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And their number will grow as government control over the content of the Internet tightens. Tor is a kind of network within the Internet with its own social networks, torrent trackers, media, trading platforms, blogs, libraries and so on.
3. YaCy
What is this
YaCy is a decentralized search engine that works on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is installed scans the Internet independently, that is, it is analogous to a search robot. The results obtained are collected into a common database that is used by all YaCy participants.
The better
It’s difficult to say whether this is better or worse, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The absence of a single server and owner company makes the results completely independent of anyone's preferences. The autonomy of each node eliminates censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.
Why do you need this
If you are a supporter of open source software and a free Internet, not subject to the influence of government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. It can also be used to organize a search within a corporate or other autonomous network. And even though YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.
4. Pipl
What is this
Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.
The better
The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than “regular” search engines. In particular, priority is given to social network profiles, comments, member lists, and various databases that publish information about people, such as databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by assessments from Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.
Why do you need this
If you need to find information about a person living in the US, then Pipl will be much more effective than Google. The databases of Russian courts are apparently inaccessible to the search engine. Therefore, he does not cope so well with Russian citizens.
What is this
FindSounds is another specialized search engine. Searches various sounds in open sources: house, nature, cars, people, and so on. The service does not support queries in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can use to search.
The better
The output contains only sounds and nothing extra. In the settings you can set the desired format and sound quality. All sounds found are available for download. There is a search by pattern.
Why do you need this
If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blows of a suckling woodpecker, or the cry of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And we chose this only from the available Russian-language queries. On English language the spectrum is even wider.
Seriously, a specialized service requires a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy for you too?
What is this
Wolfram|Alpha is a computational search engine. Instead of links to articles containing keywords, it provides a ready-made answer to the user’s request. For example, if you enter “compare the populations of New York and San Francisco” into the search form in English, Wolfram|Alpha will immediately display tables and graphs with the comparison.
The better
This service is better than others for finding facts and calculating data. Wolfram|Alpha collects and organizes knowledge available on the Web from a variety of fields, including science, culture and entertainment. If this database contains a ready-made answer to a search query, the system displays it; if not, it calculates and displays the result. In this case, the user sees only nothing superfluous.
Why do you need this
If you are, for example, a student, analyst, journalist or Researcher, you can use Wolfram|Alpha to find and calculate data related to your activities. The service does not understand all requests, but it is constantly developing and becoming smarter.
What is this
The Dogpile metasearch engine displays a combined list of results from search results from Google, Yahoo and other popular systems.
The better
First, Dogpile displays fewer ads. Secondly, the service uses a special algorithm to find and show the best results from different search engines. According to the Dogpile developers, their systems generate the most complete search results on the entire Internet.
Why do you need this
If you can't find information on Google or another standard search engine, look for it in several search engines at once using Dogpile.
What is this
BoardReader is a system for text search in forums, question and answer services and other communities.
The better
The service allows you to narrow your search field to social platforms. Thanks to special filters, you can quickly find posts and comments that match your criteria: language, publication date and site name.
Why do you need this
BoardReader can be useful for PR specialists and other media specialists who are interested in the opinion of the masses on certain issues.
Finally
The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked the former general director of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, Sergei Petrenko, about the long-term prospects of such projects.
Sergey Petrenko
Former CEO"Yandex.Ukraine".
As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore without clear commercial prospects or, conversely, with complete clarity of their absence.
If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but popular niche, which, perhaps, has not yet grown enough to be noticeable on the radars of Google or Yandex, or they are testing an original hypothesis in ranking, which is not yet applicable in regular search.
For example, if a search on Tor suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, results from there are needed by at least a percentage of Google’s audience, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find them and show them to the user. If the behavior of the audience shows that for a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries, results given without taking into account factors depending on the user seem more relevant, then Yandex or Google will begin to produce such results.
“Be better” in the context of this article does not mean “be better at everything.” Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Yandex (even far from Bing). But each of these services gives the user something that the search industry giants cannot offer. Surely you also know similar projects. Share with us - let's discuss.
Kuznetsov Vladimir Georgievich, associate professor of the Department of TiMEMO and ICT, OGBU DPO "RIRO"Nygma- Russian intelligent metasearch system, the first clustering search engine in Runet. The project was created with the support of the departments of computer science and psychology of Moscow State University, as well as Stanford University (USA). The name "Nigma" (one of the genus of spiders of the family Dictynidae, en:Nigma) was chosen due to its association with the World Wide Web. The founders of the project are Viktor Lavrenko and Vladimir Chernyshov. The head of the Nigma.RF development team is Vladislav Kuznetsov.
At the top of the Nygma start window there is a menu bar for accessing all popular services.
This eliminates the need to open new windows or tabs to access these services, or enter special addresses. You just need to click on the name of the desired service in this menu and social network or mail or TV programs, or news will open next to Nygma.
So, for example, using the “TV program” menu commands, you can view the TV program for the current day or some other day of the week, indicating the viewing time (now, morning, afternoon, evening).
If we select the “maps.yandex.ru” command in the “Maps” menu, and in the window that opens, select the “Ryazan View on panorama” option, you can take a virtual walk around Ryazan.
Nygma's control elements
The Nigma search engine window itself consists of 6 tabs: “Internet”, “Pictures”, “Books”, “Music”, “Mathematics”, “Mini-games”, a special field for entering a query with a button for initializing information search for the entered query , and a number of other control elements. By default, the "Internet" tab is selected in the search engine window.
To switch to another tab, click on the button with the name of this tab located in the line of buttons located above the field for entering queries.
The name of the button for initializing requests depends on the selected tab. If the "Internet" tab is selected, the button is engraved "Find"; if the "Pictures" tab is selected, the button is called "Find Pictures!", etc.
Each tab below the query entry field has its own line for example queries.
Smart search in all search engines at once!
Nigma is designed in such a way that after entering a query from the keyboard and pressing the initialization button, the search engine will begin searching for the requested information immediately not only using Nigma, but also using other search engines, and immediately (Yandex, Google, Rambler, Bing, Yahoo, Altavista). It's comfortable. At the same time, if the query is poorly formulated, too many documents will be found as a result of the search and it will take sufficient time to extract the most suitable document from this list.
To speed up the search for the necessary information in Nigma, you can use the following main methods:
- filtering the requested information on specific topics;
- use of a special block of control elements;
- use of advanced search capabilities;
- using your own query language.
Filtering requested information by specific topics
The essence of this method is as follows. Based on the user's request, Nigma generates a list of documents, dividing it into groups (filters). Using filters, the user can refine the query and quickly sort the found documents according to the topic he needs (select the ones he needs or exclude unnecessary topics).
Let us enter the general query “Medicine” on the “Internet” tab and click the “Find” button. As a result we got crazy big number results - more than 150 million documents.
But Nigma automatically grouped the found documents into topics that are similar in meaning, and displays a list of these topics in the column on the left.
To the left of the name of each topic/group of topics with a similar topic is an indicator in the form of a miniature square flag.
By clicking on the flag indicator, we can either turn on topics, or, conversely, turn them off so that they are eliminated during filtering.
If we click on the indicator for the first time, an icon in the form of a miniature red cross appears in the indicator, and the corresponding topic name will be crossed out, i.e. this topic will be excluded during filtering.
If we double-click on the indicator, an icon in the form of a green checkmark will appear in the indicator, and the topic indicated by the indicator will be included in the list of selected documents when filtering.
Enabling or disabling topics when filtering documents takes effect after clicking the "Filter" button.
If we want to turn off all the topics presented in the list, then we must select the “Exclude” command in the “With all” group.
If we want to include all the topics presented in the list, then we must select the “Select” command in the “With all” group.
If we want to reset all selected checkboxes (that is, not filter anything), then we need to select the “Reset” command in the “With all” group.
Suppose we need to exclude all topics when filtering, with the exception of the topic “Drug Directory”. The easiest way to do this is as follows. First, use the “Reset” command to exclude all topics from the list of topics. Then additionally click on the indicator of the topic “Directory of Medicines” so that instead of the icon with a red cross, a green checkmark icon appears in the indicator. Finally, click on the “Filter” button.
Using a block of control elements
Under the query entry field there is a block of control elements for configuring the search.
If we turn on the “In Ryazan” checkbox in this block, then the search for the information requested in the request will be limited only to the Ryazan region. The "Search Engines" button opens a list of available search engines: Yandex, Google, Rambler, Bing, Yahoo, Altavista, Nigma.
By default, all these search engines are connected with checkboxes and will be used to find the necessary information. If necessary, some of them can be disabled.
The "Language" button opens the list of available languages. By default, the "Any language" option is selected. At the same time, you can use the selector button to select other options: “Russian”, “Ukrainian”, “English”.
The "Sorting" button opens a menu for selecting a sorting method. By default, the "No sorting" option is selected. You can use the selector button to select the following sorting options: “By date (from new)” or “By date (from old)”.
The "Settings" button opens a group of options included by checkboxes in the search engine ("Autocomplete", "Translator", "News", "Mathematics", "Chemistry", "Fact Search", "Definitions"). Some of them can be disabled if desired.
Using Advanced Search Mode
On the right side of the line with buttons for selecting the desired tab there are two more buttons: and “Switch to help mode”.
Clicking on the "Advanced Search" button opens a special panel for selecting additional options for an advanced search for the information you are looking for.
A second click on the same button closes the advanced search panel.
By clicking on the "Go to help mode" button, Nigma is switched to help mode. In this mode, you can quickly get acquainted with the list of tasks that are available to the user using certain system controls.
Search images in Nygma
To search for pictures, you need to go to the "Pictures" tab. Let's say we want to find pictures of an Amur tiger.
In the field for entering a request from the keyboard, enter “Amur tiger” and click the “Find pictures!” button.
As a result, a window will appear with a selection of thumbnails depicting an Amur tiger.
Click on the thumbnail you like to open the picture in a separate window.
By right-clicking on the picture, open the context menu and in this menu select the command we need (to save the picture in a file, print the image on a printer, copy the image to the clipboard, save it on the computer as a background image to decorate your desktop Windows desktop, etc.).
Nigma - Smart Library
If we leave the request “Amur Tiger” and go to the “Books” tab, then we will automatically go to the section of the search engine related to literature dedicated, one way or another, to Amur tigers.
Moreover, based on the request (in our case, “Amur tiger”), Nigma generates a list of documents, dividing it into groups (filters). Using filters, the user can refine the query and quickly sort the found documents according to the topic he needs (select the ones he needs or exclude unnecessary topics).
1. Search in Russian literature
1.1. By author's last name
By writing only the author's last name (for example, Yesenin), you can find his works.
I have already pointed out that Nygma’s tabs are interconnected by the entered query.
So, for example, if we want to select the most suitable picture with the image of Sergei Yesenin, then we just need to go to the “Pictures” tab to see an extensive collection of pictures with the image of S. Yesenin
1.2. Text of the author's work
To find a specific text by the author, you need to supplement the query with the name of the work, for example: Chekhov Horse surname.
2. Search by foreign literature
In the search bar, you can write both the name of the author (for example, Galsworthy) and the title of his work (for example, The Forsyte Saga).
Nygma Music
Nigma Music is a service that simplifies the search for musical compositions. The Nigma.ru search robot finds music files on the Internet and indexes the tags contained in these same files, producing the desired result upon request.
Nygma searches for music all over the Internet, sorts and groups the results. This means that you can easily find the artist or song you need, and without leaving Nigma you can listen to and download them.
Search for music tracks by artist, album, song
The user can enter the name of the group, song, artist, album, etc. into the search bar (for example, Lyube, Alexander Malinin, etc.).
In the materials found by request, when you click on the “Read lyrics” link, a page with the lyrics of the song will open. For example, with the lyrics of the song "Shores".
When you click on the “Listen” link, the player control panel will open and the process of playing the ordered melody/album will begin.
When you click the "Copy" link, a panel will open asking "Do you want to open or save?"
If you want to save the selected melody in the desired folder, expand the menu of the "Save" button and in this menu select the "Save as" command.
A standard “Save As” window will open, in which you just need to specify the destination folder and then click the “Save” button.
Nygma. Catalog of popular games
Nygma. Mathematics
The Nigma mathematical system allows you to perform simple arithmetic transformations and solve mathematical problems, taking into account various units of measurement and recognizing mathematical and physical constants. Queries for converting currencies, solving systems of equations, and plotting function graphs are also supported.
The mathematical system was launched in October 2008.
Nygma. Chemistry
In December 2008, support for queries on inorganic chemical reactions, both starting and final reaction substances, appeared. Subsequently, search for chemical reactions and support for organic chemistry were added.
As of 2011, the system allows you to search for more than 12,000 inorganic reactions. Substances can be specified either as names (“sodium chloride”, “rock salt”) or as formulas (“NaCl”).
Browse Search
Nygma is effective for overview search when collecting information. It allows you to quickly find public information from various areas and check if you have missed anything important using other search engines.
I have prepared a small brochure with a selection of exercises for accelerated mastery of the described online service and you can download this brochure from the provided link. (doc, 6.99MB)
The subject of today's article will be Nigma - this is an intelligent search system that stands out among all competitors with an unusual search system that allows you to quickly find what you need and sift out the slag.
When discussing search engines in the community of webmasters and optimizers, it is customary to mention Yandex and Google, everything else remains outside the brackets, sometimes they remember mail.ru, but there is no talk of nigma.ru at all.
The question is - why? It's all about traffic. Website owners are interested in traffic from visitors, and Nigma’s share in the RuNet is negligible. Unpopular search engines are of no interest - too few people use them to spend attention and time.
Meanwhile, for a simple network user, the Nigma search engine is much more interesting than its famous competitors.
Intelligent search system
The uniqueness of Nigma.rf (or Nigma Ru) lies not in secret algorithms for ranking web pages, but in the ability to collect, sort and process information in such a way that only the necessary answers appear on the screen and the user does not have to go through site after site, bumping into different GS and non-thematic resources.
It is very convenient, easy to use, and friendly even for non-technical people.
There are special modules that are responsible for non-standard types of information, for example, searching for torrents or solving mathematical problems - I will talk about them in more detail below.
There is a logical filtering of requests, in which only the category of responses that relates to the topic is selected. For example, many phrases have double, triple or more meanings. A regular search will show everything mixed up, but Nigma will recognize your area of interest and delete it.
The search functions are significantly enhanced by the fact that Nigma takes into account search results from other search engines and can compare and combine them, which allows for better results.
Let's talk about all the functions in more detail.
Normal – Unusual search Nygma
It was mentioned above that the search results, among other things, use the data of others, which makes it better and more complete, but this is far from the most interesting element.
Search query syntax – no need to know!
Unlike other search engines, Nigma does not require knowledge of the syntax of search queries (all kinds of +, quotes, exclamation marks, etc.). Most users don't know how to find exact phrases or exclude words using special characters, so they don't use them when entering keywords.
Here everything is implemented more simply. We click above the search bar “Advanced Search” and in human understandable form set detailed search conditions.
If you want to exclude obviously unnecessary words, write them in the “no words” field. Let’s say when searching for information about lions, using the query “Lion”, you can exclude the word “Tolstoy” and pages about the great writer will not bother you.
You need an exact phrase - there is a special field for it. Searching for a specific site is not a problem.
As a hint, here is an example of what syntax would have to be typed manually if there were no ready-made fields.
You can immediately set the search region, the search engines used, the language, the preferred sorting by date, and several more functions that pre-clarify the search results - and all this without any special knowledge.
Query filtering (clustering)
After you have received results for your request, Nigma.ru gives you the opportunity to filter them in order to remove obviously unnecessary garbage and save the user’s precious time viewing inappropriate pages.
To do this, a list of categories that appear most frequently in the results appears to the left of the search results. Returning to the example with Leo, we see that many sites relate to astrology, but we need animals - we put crosses in front of the horoscope. Clicking the cross again sets a check mark - a required word.
In this way, from the whole variety of pages using a filter, I left only sites about lions of animals and the king of beasts.
Search tips
Unlike competitors, by entering a query in the search bar you don’t even have to go to the results, since search tips automatically provide information on the entered word from Wikipedia.
This is convenient if you come across an unfamiliar term - enter it into the search bar, hover over the hint, and read the answer. There is no need to press Enter.
Isolation of official sites
Nigma’s user-friendly search element is the highlighting of official sites, and a special icon is added to them in the search results. With its help, you can quickly find the organization you need among the mountains of network garbage. This feature helps protect the Internet from scammers, since they will not be able to pass off their website as an official one.
File search (music, books, torrent)
Searching the Internet does not always mean searching for sites with information; often users want to download something - books, music, torrent files with films or programs.
In most cases, turning to Google or Yandex for such data turns life into hell, since the search results show everything, but not the places where something can be downloaded.
The Nigma search system uses special modules for these tasks that work specifically for file searches. Music and books are placed in special tabs.
Book search initially selects sites where you can download literature. A music search provides links to ready-made tracks, which means you can listen to them directly in your browser or download them to your computer. By the way, registered users can independently add audio files to the system.
Torrent trackers are not placed in a separate tab. To search for them, Nigma.rf requires entering an additional word in the search bar - “torrent” or “torrent”. All found torrents with this name will be placed in a table indicating the number of uploading and downloading users.
Nigma - mathematics
This is the module for which Nigma is so loved by students and schoolchildren (and will be loved by those who read the article for the first time).
Nigma actually solves problems in mathematics - equations and examples of varying complexity, including logarithms and complex numbers. It’s difficult to call this function a search, since answers are not searched, but counted, but the feature is really cool and unusual.
Moreover, not only the results of the solution are displayed, but also their progress in various ways.
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Not only numeric data input, but also words are accepted for processing. You can write an equation in Russian without numbers and the system will still calculate it (even certain mistakes in words are allowed).
I hope that these opportunities will not reduce the level of education in our country and students will use it only for testing.
Nigma - chemistry
Chemistry is not a separate section, but it works by analogy with Nygma-mathematics. In the search bar, enter substances in words or letters, and the search engine will show all possible chemical reactions between them, supporting the formulas with hints and comments.
Chemistry at school was easy for me, but I know that for many classmates it was such a dark forest that Nygma Chemistry could be the only way out of it.
Online unit and currency converter
Another feature is the ability to convert various quantities into other units. You can ask to translate the units of measurement of information, for example, by asking the question “how many MB are in 4 GB” we will get the following answer:
Currency conversion possible different countries at the current rate. The system even accepts some common names. It is enough to ask a question in human language and you will find out “how many bunnies are in 5 wooden bunnies”:
When you communicate with Nigma more closely, you begin to believe that artificial intelligence is already a reality.
Nigma for webmasters - site search
Despite the fact that the intelligent search engine is of greatest interest (at the moment) to users, there are still benefits for webmasters.
We are talking about searching the site. If you read my article on how to do a Yandex site search (), then you understand what I’m talking about. If not, then I’ll briefly explain.
We get 2 codes:
- We paste the frame code with the search results onto the created page;
- We paste the search form code into the place on the site where we want to see a line for entering queries.
Conclusion
Personally, I really liked the search engine - rich functionality, the ability to quickly find everything you need, sort the results (automatically exclude obviously unnecessary results), nice design, intuitive interface. In a word - everything an ordinary user needs for a comfortable search.
I'm glad it's so powerful software was created by our compatriots from Moscow State University almost on their knees. I would like to wish the authors and owners smart marketing specialists who would help promote it to the masses. I would gladly give Google's market share to them.
Are you looking for search engines without censorship or restrictions? In this article I will present to you a selection of the best search engines without any restrictions. The Internet is an excellent way to transmit and disseminate information. However, popular search engines not only use their own filtering, but also analyze the user’s history, selecting search results to suit their area of interest, and also use targeted advertising.
Sometimes this feature really helps. However, in most cases we see what the search engine considers most relevant, but in fact helpful information may be on page 5-10 in the search results.
Is it possible to get rid of censorship in popular search engines?
If Yandex or Google suits you, but you would like to expand the list of available sites, then just change the filter setting. By default, popular search engines choose moderate filtering of search queries. You can change this parameter in the settings window for a specific search engine to use it without censorship or restrictions.
Please note that material designed for an adult audience with a stable psyche will be found more often, and it will be easier to find a suitable site, for example, with a “strawberry”. But if we are talking about resources blocked by a search engine or authorities, then this manipulation will not change anything. By the way, it is likely that not very pleasant ads will appear in contextual advertising, but you should not be especially afraid for this, because advertising platforms and agencies still set certain limits.
Tor - anonymous browser
Many advanced users have long been using the TOR network and the browser of the same name with increased privacy. This is not just an anonymous search engine, but a whole parallel world of the Internet! Of course, the number of sites is not so large, and among them a huge number offer illegal activities or goods. But nevertheless, here you can find pirated copies of films, games and much more.
Tor Search is truly uncensored. It is used for searching on the darknet. There are no restrictions for the user and resource owner. At the same time, complete anonymity of both parties is maintained. The search engine uses Nutch, built on Apache. “The system was originally developed for Yahoo,” says creator Chris McNaghten.
Duck search - no limits
YaCy is a search robot on every computer
This is a free system that works on the principles of decentralization https://yacy.net/en/index.html. Each participating computer independently conducts a search, expanding the common base - the classic P2P operating scheme. The request itself is processed directly on the computer, which prevents data leakage about visited pages and search history. It is simply unrealistic to introduce any censorship or impose sites on YaCy! It can even scan a corporate network.
What is the disadvantage of anonymous search engines?
Why are giants using multi-level filters still thriving? It's all about speed. Often, the search engine uses encryption and a VPN service without restrictions to hide the user’s real information. This significantly slows down request processing. However, this is a small price to pay for privacy and data protection.
Internet without censorship or high processing of requests with an abundance of advertising? The choice is yours!
In contact with
Every day, when we access the Internet, we use a variety of search engines. Google and Yandex have long been the world leaders, but in parallel with them there are many other popular search engines: Rambler, Yahoo, Bing. All of them, not without reason, have acquired their fans, but none of these systems can boast of the same high-tech and intelligent search algorithm as Nigma.ru.
What is Nigma.ru?
Nygma is an intelligent search system that appeared on the Internet in the spring of 2005, thanks to the efforts of students, graduate students and former students of Moscow University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics, Psychology and Cybernetics. In addition, representatives of Stanford University also worked very fruitfully to improve this system.
At first glance, you may think that this search engine differs from its competitors only in its attractive design, but it works based on an innovative clustering method. By entering a search query into Nigma.ru, you will certainly receive information that best suits your requirements due to thematic grouping of search results.
In many sources, the Nigma.ru site is called not an independent search engine, but a modern add-on over other search engines. The thing is that Nigma is equipped not only with its own personal search robot, which actively indexes the Runet, but also receives data from public databases of popular search engines. You can select from the drop-down list of search engines exactly those items that you need, or get rid of unnecessary ones. By default, Nigma.ru uses data from all systems.
You can always use special filters to filter out inappropriate results. For example, remove online stores from the search. As a result, finding the information you need is not only easier, but also much faster.
The programmers who created Nigma.ru based the work of this site on their developments in the field of creating artificial intelligence. Modeling of intellectual activity is carried out using modern computers. The creators of the project plan to organize not a simple search engine, but a smart system that will not give the user a link to the site, but will provide him with an answer to the question asked. Ideally, it will select the most appropriate data based on the results of the analysis of the request and the existing documentary base.
Features of the Nigma.ru system
Recently, this search engine has become available to its users not only at Nigma.ru, but also through the Cyrillic domain Nigma.rf. Unlike other search engines, Nigma has rather modest human resources, as well as limited financial capabilities. It is known from official sources that Nigma.ru has only a few dozen employees, but this does not at all prevent the resource from developing at a fairly rapid pace.
Clustering, which underlies the operation of the system, actually sorts the results into shelves so that it is much easier for the user to sort the received data. Sometimes it is quite difficult for search engines to understand what exactly a person wanted to find. Each of them struggles with this problem in their own way. Yandex employees came up with a technology called Spectrum, but it only partially copes with solving the given problem. That is why Nigma was equipped with special filters that make it possible to identify specific clusters or remove certain items from the search results.
The left working panel of the search engine displays a list of filters. You can exclude all unnecessary items and then reintroduce them into the search if necessary, or reset the settings and start over. As a result, just a few clicks will help you quickly filter out a lot of inappropriate results and achieve the highest possible relevance of your query.
From the history of creation
It was this idea that formed the basis for the creation of the innovative search system Nigma.rf. The author of the concept was a certain Lavrenko, who at that time worked at Mail.ru. The implementation of the project was undertaken by Vladimir Chernyshev, a student at the Faculty of Cybernetics at Moscow University. It took specialists a year to launch the project, and already in 2005 users were able to try it out in practice.
At first, its creators wanted to compete with other search engines, but the main competitors had already reached a serious level of development by that time and did not want to stop there. Yandex and Google came to the forefront and firmly established themselves there. Significant financial investments into the development and improvement of these systems continue today, rapidly gaining momentum. At that time, Google could not yet boast of taking into account Russian morphology, but Nigma did not use even this advantage to receive dividends. In addition, this topic has soon lost its relevance.
This forced the specialists from Nigma to work hard to create something that no other search engine had. The search add-on deserves special attention Nigma mathematics and chemistry. In addition, there is a separate search for torrents and music tracks.
Nigma Mathematics, Chemistry and Music
Do you urgently need to calculate the discriminant, square a number, multiply by PI, or calculate the cosine of an angle? The Nigma search engine will do everything for you. To do this, just write the query in the search bar, and then admire not only the result of the solution, but also its progress. I think this is especially relevant for schoolchildren and students, but it can also be useful for engineers.
We enter a text description and get not only the correct form of the equation, but also its solution. Even if you write an equation with errors, a special spell checker will correct them immediately. Nigma Mathematics can easily solve this and more complex problems.
Nigma Chemistry will clearly show you what chains of chemical compounds look like, working even with complex formulas organic or inorganic chemistry. In this case, the request can also be entered in plain text.
Built-in player in the system Nygma Music allows you not only to find the desired song or artist, but also to listen musical composition or get a direct download link.
While listening to the found song, you will be able to familiarize yourself with sites where you can download the song indicating a specific bitrate. By registering on the site, you can also add your own works to Nygma’s musical database. Searching torrents through Nigma will help copyright holders of specific software or video track the sources of violation of their legal rights.
Nygma's hints for relevant searches
The Nigma search engine was created to simplify the lives of Internet users. That is why the system has special prompts with several query options. Sometimes you can get the answer to your question without even going to the search results.
The physical unit converter in Nigma understands its users perfectly, so there is no need to worry about the correctness of the entered query.
The Nigma search engine has many more interesting search tools in store for you. To decipher the abbreviation, it is not at all necessary to go to specific sites, since you can get all the necessary information in the description. This search engine always marks the official websites of companies with a special icon.
Nygma is improving every day, so we can expect other useful innovations from it in the near future.
