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: https://blog.mojeek.com/2024/02/major-algorithm-update.html

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

pretty much: https://www.searchenginemap.com/, used to be +the Yandex API

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.

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

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.

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.

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

mojeek and lynx together, love this combo!

coming up to 20 years of no tracking, 18 of having the first privacy policy to say it: https://web.archive.org/web/20060318104627/http://www.mojeek.com/privacy.html

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

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

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

sorry for taking a while to get back, raising this one on our feedback board; if you have any others there is a submit feedback button on the results pages you can use to just send it our way, not post it on a forum 🙏

this is correct 😀

howdy 👋

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.

our Search Choices might be of use here, different implementation but similar: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedom-to-seek.html

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: https://www.mojeek.com/eval so hopefully it'll be even more fantastic-er soon :D

hello, we're quoted in the piece, set your parameters to look only since the change/recently i.e.

Bing - Restricted to a week here and there is nothing
Mojeek - We are not crawling due to the block, avoiding adding results without content

As most are just using Bing's results (DDG, Qwant, Ecosia) you should see similar.

thanks for mentioning us; Qwant also uses Bing (same as DDG) so if they don't have a personal parameter then it should be similar. That being said we (obviously) think people should give Mojeek a go :D

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

no problem, this map might be useful: https://www.searchenginemap.com/

Currently looking at mojeek myself

How'd you find us?

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

no hidden catches no

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

yep, since 2004

spend a lot of time lurking; hard not to have a look for your own name 😀

Sometimes it's a hard one to remember 😅

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

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

yes we are indeed a standalone, the sizes of bubbles are reflections of the number of index-usage relationships yep is attached to ahrefs: https://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

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 👏👏👏

sorry for taking a while to get back but the main source of mojeek revenue is api sales, having people pay to access results for different applications (bing does similar i.e. duckduckgo, qwant, ecosia)

It's not currently got something live on it to test (you can use it but it should be the same results across both). If you wanna help out then let us know how you find Mojeek via this survey please!!!! https://blocksurvey.io/mojeek-user-survey-2024-mJmJ2bBcQDy9QtByOmJX7A?v=o

Choices do this very thing, you click a button and the search in the bar goes to that site, if you have this enabled in the search bar. If not they are present at the bottom of the results.

We are in the process of open sourcing the library of choices so they are user-submitted.

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: https://www.mojeek.com/eval; there's an improvement algo up there currently we're getting testing done on.

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

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.

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