working on it! If you have any searches not working for you then please send them in to us; it’s one the main ways in which we identify issues and improve Mojeek for everyone.
The alternative search engine that does what’s right, we believe that privacy is a human right and that a true alternative must have its own index 👉 https://www.mojeek.com/
working on it! If you have any searches not working for you then please send them in to us; it’s one the main ways in which we identify issues and improve Mojeek for everyone.
can’t emphasise too much that this piece is a very necessary read for anyone who wants to know about search; not just because it says good things about us, but because of the depth of research which has been put in here. Most times you encounter an article about indexes they are just taking whatever a (meta)search engine says about themselves, not even looking at privacy policies for “relationships with microsoft” etc. or doing any comparative work.
people interested in alternative search tend to be in spaces that aren’t your GAFAM big tech networks, we’ve been on masto since 2018 also
not to come off as overly dismissive of people elsewhere, but you also find that the quality of discourse and people’s willingness to think about things are both considerably more elevated
we’re working on it 😉 slow and steady and all that; we also fixed a bug with recrawl recently that should be improving things
do you remember any of the queries for which you were not satisfied? We’re always looking to improve
you can also send us in queries where we’re not perfect, or let us know elsewhere, and we’re keen on fixing them
Sometimes it’s a hard one to remember 😅
This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀
thanks a lot in advance, and fedi is where it’s at ! 💯
sorry to hear that; if you are using us any point in the future and want to flag this, we have a “submit feedback” button on pages, this is a really useful thing to do for us, as it helps us to identify results which are not so good :D
no hidden catches no
Bin-go: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ same with many others
if you look at the repo they give thanks to:
“The commoncrawl organization for crawling the web and making the dataset readily available. Even though we have our own crawler now, commoncrawl has been a huge help in the early stages of development.”
There is nothing I can find which says how much of the index is CC and how much is their own; if there’s a decent amount of CC, this is originally for researchers etc. it’s not the best resource in the world for a search index: https://commoncrawl.org/
That being said, as an independent search engine, it’s always good to see people take on the massive task of actually building an index, not becoming a proxy.
we’re gettin’ censored here 🫠
howdy 👋
ah no bother at all, not everyone is gonna be across every single kind of company and they are functionally very similar!
good write up, we’re Mojeek Limited, not Mojeek LLC; LLC as a formation in the UK is called a “Private Limited Company” (PLC) which is contracted to .ltd or limited.
Thanks for the shoutout, it’s always much-appreciated. If you’re looking to test new things/ help us out in other ways, we’re testing a new algo :D
Came here cos of the mention of Mojeek; will be coming back for this long quality list of things I can put on my phone 👏👏👏