Mojeek Explained

Mojeek
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Language:English, French, German
Type:Search engine
Programming Language:C programming language
Author:Marc Smith
Owner:Mojeek Limited[1]
Launch Date:[2]
Location:Brighton, United Kingdom[3]
Current Status:Online

Mojeek ([4]) is a search engine based in the United Kingdom.[5] The search results provided by Mojeek come from its own index of web pages, created by crawling the web.[6] [7] [8]

History

In 2004, the Mojeek search engine started out as a personal project by Marc Smith at the Sussex Innovation Centre. The search technology was created from the ground up using mostly the C programming language and for much of its early life, the servers were run from Smith's bedroom.[9]

In 2006, Mojeek became the first search engine to have a no tracking privacy policy. This policy remains in place to this day.[10]

After receiving investment, Mojeek was officially incorporated as a limited company in 2009.[11]

On 26 January 2011, it was highlighted as an alternative British-based search engine during a Parliamentary debate on UK internet search engines over "allegations of manipulation of Google's search results, particularly the unfavourable treatment of its unpaid and sponsored results, and the preferential placement of [their] own services."[12]

As of 2013, Mojeek's servers are run from the Custodian data centres in Maidstone, which bills itself as "one of the greenest data centres in the UK."[13] [14]

On 15 April 2015, the BBC's World Global Show and Radio 5 Live talked to Smith about the Mojeek search engine and the EU's decision to file a complaint against Google over alleged anti-competitive behaviour.[15]

In 2017, in partnership with EMRAYS Technologies, Mojeek launched a demo of their emotional search engine which allows users to search for pages with certain emotional content.[16]

As of May 2019, Mojeek's index contained over 2.3 billion pages,[17] and by April 2020, that number had increased to over 3 billion.[18] As of June 2021 Mojeek has 4 billion pages [19] and in March 2022, 5 billion pages.[20] It hit the 6 billion mark in October 2022.[21] [22]

In 2022, Mojeek became the default search engine of Privacy Browser.[23] It was subsequently added to Pale Moon[24] and the SerenityOS web browser.[25]

Starting mid-2023,[26] Kagi Search lists Mojeek as one of the sources for its results.[27]

Key features

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.[29]

Etymology

On October 23, 2022. Mojeek confirmed on Twitter that there is no real meaning or genuine etymology behind the word "mojeek" and that the word was simply made up.[30]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MOJEEK LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House). beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. en. 2019-04-02.
  2. Web site: Mojeek Search Preview. https://web.archive.org/web/20041127143904/http://www.mojeek.com/. dead. 2004-11-27. 2004-11-27. Mojeek. 2019-04-02.
  3. Web site: Sussex Innovation Centre UKSPA. www.ukspa.org.uk. 2019-04-02.
  4. Web site: Get to Know Mojeek. Facebook. 30 July 2018. 19 July 2022.
  5. https://www.keith-griffiths.com/2018/03/top-10-search-engines-in-the-uk Top 10 Search Engines in the UK 18-03-25
  6. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/custodian-data-centre-billions-revenue-maidstone-121459/ More than £1.5 billion of revenue passes through servers held at Custodian Data Centre, the high-security site in Maidstone, Kent Online, 17-03-02
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=0hcpDwAAQBAJ&dq=mojeek&pg=PA40 Expert Internet Searching: Fifth edition
  8. Web site: Meet Mojeek, the UK search engine taking on Google's 'unhealthy monopoly' . Simister . George . UKTN . 2022-11-08 . 2022-11-15.
  9. Web site: Mojeek! The British Alternative Search Engine!. Techmash!. Team. 2018-09-05. Techmash. en-GB. 2019-04-02. 2019-01-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20190121064837/http://techmash.co.uk/2018/09/05/mojeek-search-engine/. dead.
  10. Web site: Privacy Policy, Wayback Machine internet archive from Mojeek website, 06-03-18). https://web.archive.org/web/20060318104627/http://www.mojeek.com/privacy.html. dead. 2006-03-18. en. 2019-04-02.
  11. Web site: MOJEEK LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House). beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. en. 2019-04-02.
  12. Web site: House of Commons Hansard Debates for 26 Jan 2011 (pt 0002). publications.parliament.uk. 2019-04-02.
  13. Web site: Mojeek Colocation Case Study, Custodian Data Centre, 18-06-30 . 2018-10-05 . 2019-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190121064616/https://www.custodiandc.com/public/documents/Custodian_Case_Study_Mojeek.pdf . dead .
  14. Web site: Custodian Data Centres. Custodian DC. en-GB.
  15. Web site: Mojeek interviewed on BBC. blog.mojeek.com. 2019-04-02.
  16. Web site: Artificial Emotional Intelligence for Web Browsing NVIDIA Blog. Watts. Jack. 2017-07-14. The Official NVIDIA Blog. en-US. 2019-04-02.
  17. Web site: Alternatives to Google: Mojeek believes a truly independent and tracking-free search engine must be built from scratch. Richards. Luke. 2019-03-05. Search Engine Watch. en-US. 2019-04-02.
  18. Web site: Three Billion Page Milestone and App Availability. Brownbill. Finn. 2020-04-29. Mojeek Official Blog. en-GB.
  19. Web site: Mojeek Reaches the 4 Billion Page Milestone. Long. Joshua. 2021-03-28. Mojeek Official Blog. en-GB.
  20. Web site: Mojeek Surpasses 5 Billion Pages. Long. Joshua. 2022-03-08. Mojeek Official Blog. en-GB.
  21. Web site: Mojeek – Now 6 Billion Pages. Long. Joshua. 2022-10-06. Mojeek Official Blog. en-GB.
  22. Web site: 2022-08-01 . Independent search engine Mojeek among UK companies seeking to make global impact . 2023-11-08 . London Issue . en-GB.
  23. Web site: Mojeek Blog Post. Stoutner. Soren. 2022-05-31. Stoutner - Programs that respect your privacy. en-US.
  24. Web site: Pale Moon - Release Notes . 2022-08-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220805003352/https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml . 2022-08-05 . live . v31.1.0 (2022-06-07) ... we've contacted Mojeek to have their search engine added by default to Pale Moon. This was done to offer a truly independent search alternative that has its own (long-standing) search index of the Web and does not rely on the major indexers like Bing, Google or Yahoo.
  25. Web site: Browser: Add Brave and Mojeek to search engines by Xexxa · Pull Request #14504 · SerenityOS/serenity. 2022-07-10. GitHub. en-US.
  26. Web site: re enrich docs · kagisearch/kagi-docs@86fbecf. 2023-07-26. GitHub. en-US.
  27. Web site: Search Sources . Kagi's Docs . 2023-11-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231105004927/https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html . 2023-11-05 . live . Our data includes anonymized API calls to traditional search indexes like Google, Mojeek and Yandex, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information like Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, and other APIs. Typically every search query on Kagi will call a number of different sources at the same time.
  28. Web site: » Have it your way with the Mojeek search engine. https://web.archive.org/web/20130526051237/http://www.pandia.com/sew/173-have-it-your-way-with-the-mojeek-search-engine.html. dead. 2013-05-26. 2013-05-26. Pandia. 2019-04-02.
  29. Web site: Mojeek shows more in its search results than Google . 2023-11-08 . en-US.
  30. https://twitter.com/mojeek/status/1584209287836237824?cxt=HHwWgIDUtYX9nvwrAAAA Tweet about Mojeek

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