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.
and when people let us know where we fall down we're able to make it better, growing alongside the userbase!
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
This is correct, we are independent and have been since all the way back in 2004, 8bn-page index and growing π
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 π at least seen very little of people saying bad
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
we're gettin' censored here π«
mojeek and lynx together, love this combo!
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
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.
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.