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Mar 5, 2019 · The debate about technical choices and hurdles, the ethics of search, as well as the value of fledgling engines in the era of Google’s dominance raged on for another 48 hours after the initial livechat. Here are some of my takeaways from that and from my own deep dive into the world of Mojeek.
Aug 30, 2018 · When you use Mojeek you don't have to worry about first or second hand bias, our index has been created from the ground up, and our results are ranked according to our own algorithms and no-one else's.
Aug 14, 2024 · Mojeek is similar to Google and Bing insofar as we use backlinks to determine the search-query-independent authority of a page (PageRank on Google, Gravity on Mojeek).
Is Mojeek just another Bing or Google syndicate? No. Mojeek’s web search results are 100% independent. They come from our crawler (MojeekBot) and index of the web, and are ordered using our own ranking algorithms.
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What is your business model?
Search engine companies typically earn revenue from advertising (in many different forms). Other sources of revenue can include APIs and partnerships, including site and enterprise search. Recently search companies have started to explore a subscription model and/or micropayments. At Mojeek we are exploring options for our business model and all of these are potential routes for us; indeed we have had small revenues from some of them without being focussed on revenue streams. In 2021 we will...
How can I be confident you will be around in 2025?
Mojeek started as a personal project in 2004, then as Mojeek Limited in 2009 right up until today. With a major investment made in 2019/2020we have a considerable runway to create a sustainable business. Our investors are providers of patient capital. They are all individual angel investors that are backing our long-term goals. We have no investors that are VCs, companies, or institutions.
How has Mojeek managed to survive so long when other search engines have come and gone?
At Mojeek we have always been careful and resourceful in the use of investment. We have only ever accepted that from sources of individual private capital who understood the importance of building up our own index and a full tech stack, independent of Big Tech.
Why should people trust you?
We’re very happy when this question comes up as it shows that people are approaching activities around their privacy and security with a healthy dose of skepticism. As a search engine which has not been tracking users since 2004 and with a privacy policy declaring that publicly since 2006, we’d hope that this quantity of time having passed without any “Mojeek is selling user data”stories would at least give people some confidence. It is important that the people using Mojeek assess the whole...
What happens if a certain government authority comes knocking, demanding all logs for a certain time period and IP range?
User IP addresses are not logged, so it wouldn’t be possible for us to provide that information; we simply do not have it.
Have you ever received any requests for information from any authority?
At the time of writing we have not received any requests for information from any authority. If we were to be compelled by a court or similar to give over information, all we would ever able to hand over would be uncoupled search queries, referral data, and requested pages. We log, on aggregate, where traffic comes from at a country level, but we do not and never have logged or stored individual IP addresses. Any information about browsers used is uncoupled from search queries.
How does Mojeek protect my privacy?
Mojeek follows a strict no-tracking privacy policy. In fact, Mojeek was the first ever no-tracking/privacy-orientated search engine. For more details check out our article on private search.
What is your privacy policy?
You can read Mojeek’s privacy policy here.
What data do you collect?
Mojeek doesn't implement any kind of specific user tracking, whether that be at the time of visit or subsequently via standard logs, which Mojeek does keep. These logs contain the time of visit, page requested, possibly referral data, and located in a separate log, browser information. IP addresses are not recorded, instead the IP address is replaced with a simple two letter code indicating the visitors country of origin. By doing this, Mojeek removes any possibility of tracking or identifyin...
Mojeek is a crawler-based search engine that provides independent [28] search results using its own index of web pages, rather than using results from other search engines. Mojeek also displays significantly more individual entries in its search results than Google or Bing.
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Sep 22, 2020 · While Mojeek doesn’t yet have the brand awareness levels of some newer privacy-focused search engines, the technology helps it differentiate. “Most users of so-called search engines, like...
