How search results are ranked

Roogle is a search and aggregation platform for rental housing. It indexes rental listings that are already published publicly by third parties on external sources.

Every listing links back to its original source: opening a listing takes you to the original post on the source website or platform.

Roogle does not publish these listings itself and does not become the publisher of the original content. It helps you discover and reach listings that exist elsewhere.

Listings come from publicly available rental posts on third-party sources — social networks and messaging apps (such as Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp), forums, community groups, websites, and manual submissions.

Listings are added and updated through a data interface that records each listing together with a link to its original source. Roogle does not run a continuous automated crawler of these sources, and does not guarantee a fixed update frequency.

The same original post is not indexed twice: a listing is identified by its source and its original identifier.

Duplicate listings

When the same property is posted on several sources, Roogle detects it and groups these copies into a single result, shown once with an indication of how many sources it was found in. Grouping is rule-based, using factual attributes — city, price and rental type, together with a matching district or surface, and matching rooms or availability date. The most recent copy is shown as the main result.

By default, results are ordered from newest to oldest, based on each listing's publication date. Listings without a known date are shown last.

Ordering is deterministic and rule-based. Roogle uses no relevance score, no keyword or text-content search, no personalization, and no machine learning. For the same search and the same sort order, every user sees the same results in the same order — regardless of country, language, or account.

The criteria you set (location, price, number of rooms, and so on) are filters: they decide which listings appear, not the order in which they are shown.

What determines the order

• The sort field you choose — publication date by default, or price, or surface area.
• A stable internal identifier used only as a tie-breaker, so that listings with an identical value keep a consistent order from one page to the next.

The sort field is the only factor that determines the order. The tie-breaker applies only when two listings share the exact same value. No other attribute — such as photos, listing completeness, source, or availability — influences the ranking.

The order of search results is not influenced by advertising, paid placement, partnerships, commissions, or affiliate relationships.

There are no sponsored, promoted, pinned, or boosted listings. No listing and no source can pay to appear higher in the results.

Roogle has no ownership or capital relationship with the sources it indexes.

No source receives preferential treatment in ranking: the order of results is identical regardless of which source a listing comes from.

You decide how results are ordered and filtered:

Sorting (changes the order)

• Newest first (default)
• Oldest first
• Price: low to high
• Price: high to low
• Surface: small to large
• Surface: large to small

Filters (change which listings appear, not the order)

Location (country, city, district), price, number of rooms, surface, rental duration, source, and availability dates. Two additional filters — offer type and furnished — are available with a Premium plan.