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Mojeek

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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 👉 www.mojeek.com

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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 👏👏👏

Mojeek ,
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there’s a safe mode if it’s of use: nested in the settings gear menu but also on /preferences (to turn it on for all searches)

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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.

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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.

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This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing 😀

Mojeek ,
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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

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we’re working on it 😉 slow and steady and all that; we also fixed a bug with recrawl recently that should be improving things

Mojeek ,
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Swisscows does use Bing, Startpage uses Bing and/or Google depending upon where you are, we are fully independent: www.searchenginemap.com is a visualisation that might be useful

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and when people let us know where we fall down we’re able to make it better, growing alongside the userbase!

Mojeek ,
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yes we are indeed a standalone, the sizes of bubbles are reflections of the number of index-usage relationships yep is attached to ahrefs: techcrunch.com/2022/06/03/yep-search-engine/ where I can speak to where results come from, I couldn’t tell you about their model

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Sometimes it’s a hard one to remember 😅

Mojeek ,
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you can also send us in queries where we’re not perfect, or let us know elsewhere, and we’re keen on fixing them

I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

I’ve been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn’t take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced...

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do you remember any of the queries for which you were not satisfied? We’re always looking to improve

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

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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

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thanks a lot in advance, and fedi is where it’s at ! 💯

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you can smash the “submit feedback” button on the page when you get a duff search and send it into us, it’s how we improve: blog.mojeek.com/…/major-algorithm-update.html

Mojeek ,
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coming up to 20 years of no tracking, 18 of having the first privacy policy to say it: web.archive.org/web/…/privacy.html

hopefully a good consensus 😅 at least seen very little of people saying bad

Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ?

I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is...

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howdy 👋

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no hidden catches no

Mojeek ,
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biased but i think they’re doing just swell (and getting better by the day) ;)

Mojeek ,
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Thanks for mentioning us nonetheless! You can help out with that journey, if you want, by chucking some searches (either new ones or old ones you remember being not so great) into the Evaluation Page and voting.

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Lately I’ve been trying to use mojeek, which (to my understanding) unlike other sites like DDG actually has its own crawler whereas most alternatives are just frontends for google/bing.

This is correct, there aren’t many, and we recently passed 7.7bn pages. You can actually help with any wonkyness through feedback, but also we have this page which we trial new algos on; there’s a large update sat on it currently.

Mojeek ,
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if you’re willing to help at all we’re always looking for feedback on specific results, and also have this page for testing staging algorithms, there’s a big change on there currently. No bother if not.

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thanks a lot for the mention, if you wanna use that fallback less and less, feeding back on algo updates via www.mojeek.com/eval always helps us

Mojeek ,
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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.

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ah no bother at all, not everyone is gonna be across every single kind of company and they are functionally very similar!

Mojeek ,
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We’re always on the lookout for feedback; if you are willing to send in the searches then it really helps us improve.

The Eval Page is also useful for this: www.mojeek.com/eval; there’s an improvement algo up there currently we’re getting testing done on.

Mojeek ,
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Currently looking at mojeek myself

How’d you find us?

Mojeek ,
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thank you kindly, that is great to hear; we’ve got this new and even better (so far testing is showing that) algo ready to go too: www.mojeek.com/eval so hopefully it’ll be even more fantastic-er soon :D

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