#mojeek — Public Fediverse posts

Nuevo artículo analizando diferentes buscadores alternativos respetuosos con la privacidad. Se agradece difusión y retoot -> https://alt43.es/analisis-de-motores-de-busqueda-privados/
#duckduckgo #brave #kagi #searxng #startpage #qwant #mojeek

Nuevo artículo analizando diferentes buscadores alternativos respetuosos con la privacidad. Se agradece difusión y retoot -> https://alt43.es/analisis-de-motores-de-busqueda-privados/
#duckduckgo #brave #kagi #searxng #startpage #qwant #mojeek

What are all global web #search engines with own #index?

I don't mean country specific ones like #Yandex , #Baidu, #Naver or #Seznam

But global like #Google , #Bing , #Brave search, #Mojeek , PriEco , mwmbl

What are all global web #search engines with own #index?

I don't mean country specific ones like #Yandex , #Baidu, #Naver or #Seznam

But global like #Google , #Bing , #Brave search, #Mojeek , PriEco , mwmbl

What are all global web #search engines with own #index?

I don't mean country specific ones like #Yandex , #Baidu, #Naver or #Seznam

But global like #Google , #Bing , #Brave search, #Mojeek , PriEco , mwmbl

What are all global web #search engines with own #index?

I don't mean country specific ones like #Yandex , #Baidu, #Naver or #Seznam

But global like #Google , #Bing , #Brave search, #Mojeek , PriEco , mwmbl

What are all global web #search engines with own #index?

I don't mean country specific ones like #Yandex , #Baidu, #Naver or #Seznam

But global like #Google , #Bing , #Brave search, #Mojeek , PriEco , mwmbl

Probé el buscador #Mojeek, para ver cómo era y cómo de bien funcionaba.

A primera vista, me gusta. Sin embargo, cuando intenté buscar por «cita electrónica extranjería», me salían muchas páginas menos la oficial del organismo correspondiente en España :blobcatthink:

My experiences and recommendations on changing Search Engine (SE) to Mojeek.com:
- Shows results based on own indexes 😃, so no hidden US-base.
- Results are far less good but with option in settings you can have alternative SE's below on each page. It makes it very easy to seach on via e.g. Qwant.
- They respect privacy
- It improves by our usage and the USA will loose value.
- It an UK-based company, not using big tech at all (as far as I could research)

#privacy #BigTech #Mojeek #EU #Europe

@Ellis Gelijk weer eens naar #Mojeek gekeken, die was een tijd terug nog niet zo bruikbaar, nu zie ik ineens goeie resultaten. Dit is een van de weinige die niet Bing gebruikt. Ga een tijdje testen.

@zoekeating.com

Hey, at least there is a UK based old school search engine now, that respects privacy, and does not use Google's index (like Startpage) or Microsoft's (like DuckDuckGo) at all - https://mojeek.com
Does it give great results all the tjme? Ummm, not quite, but at least it is a nice option to have, that is a "work in progress"

@MetaGer Der Index von #Mojeek scheint in der Tat stetig zu wachsen. Früher bekam ich von dort meist nur unbrauchbare Fundstellen, wenn überhaupt etwas gefunden wurde. Das hat sich geändert.

I hela Norden dominerar Google sökningarna på internet med mycket stor marginal. I Europa ser det exakt likadant ut. Googles marknadsandel i är enorm (februari 2026). Här kommer en genomgång av situationen i Norden. 

In my #blog
#Bing plummets again

https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/03/bing-plummets-again/ #Google #Mojeek

@Mojeek actually has a larger search index of The New York Times than Google. #SearchEngines

@Disreputable_Craftsman Thanks and hope you keep me posted. Still not sure what to use myself in all this sloppy AI-mess.

#Startpage #SearchXNG #Mojeek #Search

Results with 13 votes:
- #mojeek 60%
- something else like #SearXNG : 40%
- #kagi : 30%
- #presearch : 0 %

Thank's for your answers :)

End today !!!

#mojeek, #presearch, #kagi, #marginaliasearch, #yacy something else ???

Do you use #mojeek, #presearch, #kagi, #marginaliasearch, #yacy or something else ??? There is no false answer! 😌

Tell us why and let us discover new tools to search online! 🙂

#websearch #websearchengine #boostswelcome #boost

@KyleCKelly well, I have nothing against ads in general.
I know that #mojeek had some too.

But there ....

MakeUseOf: A truly independent search engine shouldn’t exist in 2026 — but it does, and it’s great. “Mojeek crawls and runs its own search index, doesn’t track you for advertising, and offers a rare sliver of peaceful privacy in an online world swimming in trackers, fingerprinting, profiling, and more. Now, this privacy is obviously wonderful, comes with significant benefits, and helps us […]

@greger Very hard to find. Both @kagihq and @Mojeek have this feature called Lenses/Focus which I find very useful; allowing you to search a specific set of domains, like online encyclopedias, small independent sites like blogs, university websites only, etc.

If I know I'm looking for hard facts from reliable sources and not generic and bloated content writing for ad revenue, I use those options.

#search #searchEngines #internet #webtools #mojeek #kagi

One of the nicest features of the Mojeek search engine is the focus feature that lets you define the set of sites you want it to search on

This is a very good way to get rid of spammy, click-baity sites

Give it a shot - https://www.mojeek.com/focus/dashboard

#search #mojeek

In my #blog
How the occidental search engines with their own index fare with site:jackyan.com

https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/12/how-the-occidental-search-engines-with-their-own-index-fare-with-sitejackyan-com/ #Google #Bing #Mojeek @Mojeek

In my #blog
How the occidental search engines with their own index fare with site:jackyan.com

https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/12/how-the-occidental-search-engines-with-their-own-index-fare-with-sitejackyan-com/ #Google #Bing #Mojeek @Mojeek

2025 FOSS tools I use

OS
#LinuxMint @linuxmint

Email
#Tuta @Tutanota

Drive
#Filen @filen

Notes
#TangentNotes @tangentnotes

Browser
#Librewolf @librewolf
#Waterfox @Waterfox

Search
#Mojeek @Mojeek
#Ecosia @ecosia
#Qwant @Qwant

Social
#Mastodon @Mastodon

___
Sharing to @opensource

@Mojeek switched to your engine as my default on #Firefox this week. Truly appreciate the hard work you are doing to be a true alternative.

Any chance we will get an update to the great search engine map you made?

Also, curious — which social media channels do you see getting the most engagement these days? Hard to keep up with all the new ones like #threads and #bluesky etc.

Just wondering which network has the most search engine geeks 😉

#search #mojeek

Daily dose of finds from the #mojeek search engine to remind you of what you're missing when you search on Google etc.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/30/131421/

Primer intento de búsqueda con #mojeek. Not very impressed.
Vale, sí, he escrito mal natación, pero otros buscadores como qwant y duckduckgo me lo han corregido y han dado resultados relevantes. Corrigiéndolo yo mismo sí obtengo resultados en mojeek, pero na tan relevantes como en los otros.

I'm going to try #Mojeek (search engine) for a bit and see how it compares to #Kagi. I'd prefer to pay and have no ads, but Mojeek seems very anti-tracking and privacy oriented, serving minimal, text-only ads. Kagi gets "no tracking, no ads, paid service" correct, but fumbled their response to some critical feedback, uses Brave as a source, and you can't buy their search product without also buying access to an LLM / AI chatbot thingy. Mojeek maintains their own index and crawler.
#search

@jackyan @GRA3432 @Mojeek

You're welcome.
I've been using #Qwant & #Startpage but I might give #Mojeek another spin

#DeGoogle

@Monolecte @bookynette @sebsauvage @Mojeek !
#mojeek
@mojeek_search_engine
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]

This is a friendly reminder that you may still be sending every website you visit to #Google even if you switch to a different search engine. Change your Domain Name System (#DNS) settings to something besides Google to stop sending them all your web browsing information.

#search #internet #SearchEngine #web #DuckDuckGo #Kagi #StartPage #Bing #Yandex #Baidu #SearX #Mojeek

Search engines in a nutshell

#SearchEngines #Google #Bing #DuckDuckGo #ZoTop #SearxNG #Brave #Qwant #Startpage #SwissCows #Mojeek #Ecosia #Lilo #Stract #Marginalia #MullvadLeta #Kagi

https://www.jeey.net/google.html

Les moteurs de recherche (en résumé)
(version ultra résumée et minimaliste de mon article https://www.jeey.net/google.html)

Edit : mise à jour avec toutes vos informations/corrections & cie de l'infographie et du site web

#MoteursDeRecherche #Google #Bing #DuckDuckGo #ZoTop #SearxNG #Brave #Qwant #Startpage #SwissCows #Mojeek #Ecosia #Lilo #Stract #Marginalia #MullvadLeta #Kagi

@pteryx According to the #Wired article [1], companies that have signed long-term deals with Microsoft will maintain access for the time being: "the largest customers of the #Bing APIs will retain their access after August 11, while smaller developers that were less profitable for Microsoft to support are being cut off".

#DuckDuckGo is cited as one of the companies who will retain access. #Ecosia plans to switch to #OWI.

#Mojeek and #Brave have their own indexes.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-support-ending/

Cómo añadir diferentes buscadores en el navegador
https://alt43.es/como-anadir-un-buscador-en-el-navegador/

#Starpage #mojeek #qwant #leta

Mojeek on Mastodon: an algorithm update announcement. ” We have switched on an improved algorithm on https://mojeek.com. This improves general relevancy and navigational searches. It takes on board recent user feedback via the evaluator 🙏. Further feedback is, as always, welcome; navigational searches can sometimes be negatively impacted.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/24/mojeek-on-mastodon-an-algorithm-update-announcement/

European search engines 🔎

Czech Republic 🇨🇿
#Seznamcz https://www.seznam.cz

France 🇫🇷
#Qwant https://www.qwant.com
#Karma https://karmasearch.org
#Lilo https://www.lilo.org
#ZoTop https://zotop.fr

Germany 🇩🇪

#Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org
#Metager https://metager.org
#Fireball https://fireball.com
#Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com
#GoodSearch https://good-search.org
#Monocles https://monocles.eu

Scandinavia 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
#Leta https://leta.mullvad.net
#Stract https://stract.com
#Marginalia https://marginalia-search.com

Switzerland 🇨🇭
#Swisscows https://www.swisscows.com
#Etools https://www.etools.ch

UK 🇬🇧
#Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com
#Oscobo https://www.oscobo.com

#SearchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU

European search engines 🔎

Czech Republic 🇨🇿
#Seznamcz https://www.seznam.cz

France 🇫🇷
#Qwant https://www.qwant.com
#Karma https://karmasearch.org
#Lilo https://www.lilo.org
#ZoTop https://zotop.fr

Germany 🇩🇪

#Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org
#Metager https://metager.org
#Fireball https://fireball.com
#Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com
#GoodSearch https://good-search.org
#Monocles https://monocles.eu

Scandinavia 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
#Leta https://leta.mullvad.net
#Stract https://stract.com
#Marginalia https://marginalia-search.com

Switzerland 🇨🇭
#Swisscows https://www.swisscows.com
#Etools https://www.etools.ch

UK 🇬🇧
#Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com
#Oscobo https://www.oscobo.com

#SearchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU

European search engines 🔎

Czech Republic 🇨🇿
#Seznamcz https://www.seznam.cz

France 🇫🇷
#Qwant https://www.qwant.com
#Karma https://karmasearch.org
#Lilo https://www.lilo.org
#ZoTop https://zotop.fr

Germany 🇩🇪

#Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org
#Metager https://metager.org
#Fireball https://fireball.com
#Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com
#GoodSearch https://good-search.org
#Monocles https://monocles.eu

Scandinavia 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
#Leta https://leta.mullvad.net
#Stract https://stract.com
#Marginalia https://marginalia-search.com

Switzerland 🇨🇭
#Swisscows https://www.swisscows.com
#Etools https://www.etools.ch

UK 🇬🇧
#Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com
#Oscobo https://www.oscobo.com

#SearchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU

European search engines 🔎

Czech Republic 🇨🇿
#Seznamcz https://www.seznam.cz

France 🇫🇷
#Qwant https://www.qwant.com
#Karma https://karmasearch.org
#Lilo https://www.lilo.org
#ZoTop https://zotop.fr

Germany 🇩🇪

#Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org
#Metager https://metager.org
#Fireball https://fireball.com
#Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com
#GoodSearch https://good-search.org
#Monocles https://monocles.eu

Scandinavia 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
#Leta https://leta.mullvad.net
#Stract https://stract.com
#Marginalia https://marginalia-search.com

Switzerland 🇨🇭
#Swisscows https://www.swisscows.com
#Etools https://www.etools.ch

UK 🇬🇧
#Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com
#Oscobo https://www.oscobo.com

#SearchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU

European search engines 🔎

Czech Republic 🇨🇿
#Seznamcz https://www.seznam.cz

France 🇫🇷
#Qwant https://www.qwant.com
#Karma https://karmasearch.org
#Lilo https://www.lilo.org
#ZoTop https://zotop.fr

Germany 🇩🇪

#Ecosia https://www.ecosia.org
#Metager https://metager.org
#Fireball https://fireball.com
#Ghostery https://ghosterysearch.com
#GoodSearch https://good-search.org
#Monocles https://monocles.eu

Scandinavia 🇸🇪 🇩🇰
#Leta https://leta.mullvad.net
#Stract https://stract.com
#Marginalia https://marginalia-search.com

Switzerland 🇨🇭
#Swisscows https://www.swisscows.com
#Etools https://www.etools.ch

UK 🇬🇧
#Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com
#Oscobo https://www.oscobo.com

#SearchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #BuyFromEU

Moteurs de recherche : Pourrait-on se passer de Google et Bing ?

Bonjour,

Lorsque que l’on navigue sur internet, on utilise tous un moteur de cherche. Pour beaucoup, il s’agit de celui de Google :

En effet, d’après Statcounter, il est utilisé par près de 88% des personnes en France :

Bing de Microsoft arrive en seconde position avec 5,64%, autant dire que l’écart est énorme.

Il y a une certaine logique à ce que Google soit bien positionné :

1. Il a été lancé en 1998 et fait partie des plus vieux moteurs de recherche, même si ce n’est pas le premier : AltaVista (fermé en 2013) & Lycos ayant démarré en 1994.
2. Il a rapidement montré son efficacité au début écrasant toute la concurrence.
3. Il est le moteur de recherche par défaut de plusieurs navigateurs (Chrome, Safari ou Firefox par exemple).
4. Il est mis en avant au travers d’Android depuis plusieurs années.
5. Il a sa propre indexation, ce qui le rend indépendant.

Ce dernier point est important car bon nombre de moteurs de recherche s’appuient aujourd’hui sur un autre. En réalité, les services faisant cela ne sont pas des moteurs de de recherche à proprement parlé mais plutôt des métamoteurs. Cela veut dire que si le ou les moteurs sur lesquels ils s’appuient tombent, alors les métamoteurs ne sont plus fonctionnels. Un autre danger pourrait venir du fait que les moteurs ayant leur index décident de ne plus afficher les résultats et de les remplacer par du contenu généré via IA.

Dans les métamoteurs, on peut citer Lilo ou Qwant par exemple. Pour ces deux cas, c’est Bing qui fournit les résultats. Pour Qwant, cela est censé changer cette année avec le projet European Search Perspective lancé en association avec Ecosia (un autre métamoteur) pour créer un index Européen.

D’autres comme DuckduckGo sont à mi-chemin entre ces deux modèles et utilisent leur propre Index complété d’un ou plusieurs autres moteurs.

En attendant la concrétisation de ce nouvel index « Européen », quels sont les moteurs de recherches indépendants en dehors de Google et Bing ?

A ma connaissance, il n’y en a que deux si on prend en compte la disponibilité en Français :

1. Mojeek basé au Royaume-Uni et créé en 2004 :

1. Brave Search lancé par Brave Software aux États-Unis en 2021 et indépendant depuis 2023 :

Il y a bien d’autres moteurs de recherche ayant leur propre index comme Yandex (créé en Russie en 1997), Baidu (créé en Chine en 2000) ou encore Naver (créé en Corée du Sud en 1999) mais ils ne proposent pas d’interface en Français, sans parler d’éventuelles autres critiques que l’on pourrait faire à ce sujet.

De ce fait, on peut dire oui sans Google et Bing, on pourrait encore avoir accès à des moteurs de recherche. Maintenant, si on se limite à l’Europe (et non l’UE), il n’y a donc que Mojeek.

Pour finir, vous pouvez regarder la vidéo de Gwên qui m’a inspiré pour creuser également la question et mettre cela par écrit. Elle y rajoute un critère supplémentaire, celui concernant la vie privée ainsi qu’une intervention surprise de Joshua Long (connu comme Josh) pour parler plus en détails de Mojeek :

Bonne recherche 🙂

Autres sources non citées :

• Google — Wikipédia
• AltaVista — Wikipédia
• Mojeek — Wikipédia
• European Search Perspective : Qwant et Ecosia unis pour « un index de recherche européen » – Next
• Naver — Wikipédia
• Yandex — Wikipédia
• Baidu — Wikipédia
• Annonce sur le site de Brave de l’indépendance de leur moteur de recherche (anglais uniquement)

Image de Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

#AltaVista #Bing #Brave #Ecosia #EuropeanSearchPerspective #Google #Lycos #Mojeek #Qwant

Para todo aquel que quiera una buena alternativa al buscador de Google:
- Startpage
- Qwant
- Mojeek
- Leta by Mullvad
#startpage #qwant #mojeek #leta

@MetaGer @MetaGer und dann kommt da noch hinzu: typisch Europa, anstatt dass sich die kleinen, die es gibt, zusammentun und gemeinsame Sache machen, will jeder sein eigenes Ding drehen. Doch gerade jetzt könnten sich #qwant, #ecosia, #metager, #openwebsearch, #mojeek zusammen für einen eigenen europäischen Index stark machen. Da wäre wohl mehr gewonnen.

For many years I‘ve used DuckDuckGo for search. But we can’t have just one Google alternative. Choices keep a market healthy.

I love where @Mojeek is going. Especially that they use their own crawler (DDG uses Bing).

I had some indexing issues with Mojeek so I reached out to them. They not only replied, but offered excellent help. AND they followed up twice, unsolicited.

It’s worth a look.

https://www.mojeek.com/

#Search #SearchEngine #Software #Privacy #GoogleAlternative #Tech #Mojeek

Calishat: Using Google Books for Web Search: Concept Compassing. “I’ve been spending my weekend playing with how Google Books could guide Web search after someone asked me about #3 in Five Ways Google Could Improve Search In 2025 That Have Nothing To Do With AI. How could Google Books make search better? I had some ideas and I applied JavaScript to them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/05/using-google-books-for-web-search-concept-compassing-calishat/

Hmm I probably have the most ridiculous #robotstxt for a #Misskey instance right now lol. I just want to let #Mojeek and #Marginalia crawl #Makai and make sure to keep out #Google and the AI scrapers... ​:satrithink:​

If there are other user-agents of independent #searchengines I should allow in https://makai.chaotic.ninja/robots.txt, please let me know! I'm actually searching #SauceNAO, #TinEye, and #IQDB's #useragent so I can let them fetch our media for their reverse image search.

User-Agent: MojeekBot
User-Agent: FeedFetcher-Mojeek
User-Agent: search.marginalia.nu
Allow: /
Allow: /notes
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /my/

User-Agent: *
User-Agent: Googlebot
User-Agent: Google-Extended
User-Agent: GoogleOther
User-Agent: AdsBot-Google
User-Agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-Agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: omgili
User-Agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-Agent: cohere-ai
User-Agent: anthropic-ai
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Applebot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: YouBot
User-Agent: AwarioRssBot
User-Agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-Web
User-Agent: DataForSeoBot
User-Agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: magpie-crawler
User-Agent: Meltwater
User-Agent: peer39_crawler
User-Agent: PiplBot
User-Agent: Seekr
Disallow: /

# todo: sitemap