Mojeek Surpasses 5B Pages

https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/03/five-billion-pages.html

by Sami_Lehtinen • 4 years ago

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moralestapia2• 4 years ago

"No Tracking. Just Search..." is cool but it's been tried before, see DuckDuckGo.

It would be nice to have "No Filters. Just Search..." as well.

Sami_Lehtinen• 4 years ago

DuckDuckGo did implement filters which is big part of the problem. Mojeek is also independent when DuckDuckGo is just cover on mostly Bing.

ColinHayhurst2• 4 years ago

Mojeek has not tracked users from the start in 2004, having made a public commitment to that in 2006, and before DuckDuckGo started.

As the OP (thank you) points out Mojeek is entirely independent with it's own crawler, index and ranking. It's a search engine, not a search proxy/service, so does not depend on the policies of Microsoft, Yandex or Google for that matter.

Pooge• 4 years ago

I've just seen your article[1] about business model. Do you think ads will be more sustainable than a subscription-based model? Since a lot of people that will use your search engine know how a computer works (i.e., they know something other than Google), it's fair to assume most of them will have an ad-blocker. Furthermore, ads are counter-productive for a service where you want to have the best result as fast as possible; people won't be looking at ads, or ads will be so intrusive the service will decline in quality (see Google). Did you do some research since the article?

From what I've heard, the UK is pretty big on surveillance. How do the laws impact the "non-tracking" part of the service?

[1] https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-a...

MarcellusDrum• 4 years ago

In their About page[0], they describe themselves as:

"...a search engine that does what's right, that values and respects your privacy, whilst providing its own unique and unbiased search results."

So they do claim to be unbiased, unlike DuckDuckGo.

[0] https://www.mojeek.com/about/

Mojeek Surpasses 5B Pages

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