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Official Mojeek Blog
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Official Mojeek Blog is the company blog at blog.mojeek.com, writing about web and politics. Since 2017, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 107 times, most often “My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Official blog for Mojeek, a crawler based search engine from the United Kingdom that doesn't track its users.
Most-linked posts?
- My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA2 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-03-18
- Search Choices Enable Freedom to Seek2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-02-08
- /2020/12/frequently-asked-questions-about-mojeek-business-model-surveillance-privacy.html2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-12-11
- Breaking Free of the Gatekeepers of Western Search2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-05-12
- Mojeek Search Summaries2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-10
- An Open Letter to Sundar Pichai: Search, Human Rights and Internet Freedom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
- Will Chatbots Kill the Search Star?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-21
- One Model to Rule Them All2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-19
- Freedom to Seek Matters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-10
- /2020/11/popping-your-filter-bubble-with-search.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-06
What Hacker News says?
We pay nothing so are not included. On the other hand we are happy to provide a one click search from our search engine or eight other search engines/services, currently from our web app [0]. One click for Google (if that's your thing), one click for Bing or Gigablast search engine results, one click for Brave and some of the many Bing and few Google syndicates - DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Startpage. [0] https://blog.mojee…
Comment linking /2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedom-to-seek.html
on “Google Search Is Dying”Submitted Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising as a story · 64 points
HN discussionIs Google still a Search Engine? Or is it rather an Answer Engine? Answers are more-and-more provided on what used to be SERPs, but now is too often dominated by answers on the page, ads, and big marketing budget SEO optimised landing pages. We still believe in the value and power of discovery; call us old-fashioned but we focus on 10 blue links using an independent index. Your vanity search maydisappoint, and our r…
Comment linking /2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedom-to-seek.html
on “Google Search Is Dying”Submitted Mojeek – 1.5B Pages and Growing (2016) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionWe are trying - with no-tracking principles and practices https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
Comment linking /2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html
on “Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories”Submitted Mojeek Surpasses 5B Pages as a story · 31 points
HN discussionYour browser can also do the universal search bar: https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/11/popping-your-filter-bubble-w...
Comment linking /2020/11/popping-your-filter-bubble-with-search.html
on “No More Google”Submitted Mojeek – Now 6B Pages as a story · 27 points
HN discussionCohort based targetting such as FLoC, PARAKEET and ATT will further embed the power of Big Tech. But I'm sure the HN community realizes this. The question is: in the face of GAFAM moats and large lobbying efforts, how else might these coalitions and smaller/emerging companies get regulators' attention? Disclosure: we are part of this coalition of 14 businesses offering browsers, search, mail, analytics, and other we…
Comment linking /2021/07/time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising.html
on “Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising”Submitted My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA as a story · 27 points
HN discussionYou might call this a search engine based on the principle of Information Neutrality. “Information Neutrality is the principle to treat all information provided (by a service) equally. The information provided, after being processed by an information-neutral service, is the same for every user requesting it, independent of the user’s attributes, including, e.g., origin, history or personal preferences and independen…
Comment linking /2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.html
on “Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?”Submitted It's the Information, Stupid as a story · 22 points
HN discussionMojeek founder story here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm... No-tracking and independent from the start. Now at 4.6 billion pages with own infrastructure and IP. Went to market in 2020 with contextual ads and API. Self-disclosure: CEO
Comment linking /2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.html
on “Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?”Submitted Searchception as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> I'd love to see us build a British Google for example. There is one, and with users globally: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-... Self-disclosure: CEO
Comment linking /2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html
on “European alternatives for digital products”Submitted What Big Tech Does with Your Data as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThey should be mentioned and also incorrect. Those listed are not search engines but search services, mostly using Google or Bing. Self-diclosure of bias but they also missed our independent no-tracking international search engine (own crawling/indexing) https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
Comment linking /2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html
on “European alternatives for digital products”Submitted Server Build and Install as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIndeed so. More here and on how Firefox is the only mainstream browser, option if you are interested in more than one lens: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...
Comment linking /2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.html
on “'Google' is most searched word on Bing”Submitted Search Choices Enable Freedom to Seek as a story · 7 points
HN discussionApologies for self-promotion. Mojeek Independent and no-tracking https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm... Gigablast is another and one of very few https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
Comment linking /2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html
on “DuckDuckGo has had 0 search warrants since founding in 2008”Submitted An Open Letter to Sundar Pichai: Search, Human Rights and Internet Freedom as a story · 7 points
HN discussionA fools errand indeed. But we currently aren't far from "the one" in three world(view)s: China - Baidu and Sogou; Russia - Yandex; Elsewhere - Google and Bing/syndicates. Korea (Naver) and Czechia/Slovakia (Seznam) are not international but local exceptions. We choose not to offer the same thing based on our values; no-tracking and infrastructural independence, meaning we aren't captured like other search options: h…
Comment linking /2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.html
on “The web starts on page four”Submitted Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? (2024) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSearX is a project which we respect and a positive contribution to improving search choice. Consideration of how it might be being used is wise. It's also wise to do due diligence on any company/service where you are revealing sensitive personal information. Traffic coming from Google in 2006, for sensitive medical search queries was a catalysts for us going public in 2006 on our strict no-tracking policy and we mai…
Comment linking /2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.html
on “Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine”Submitted Sticks and Stones; a Counterargument to Political Calls for Anonymity as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYes, Safari is the worst offender when it comes to offering search choice on desktop. On iOS using a new app called Hyperweb you can the new Safari extensions to access and create a longer preferences list. https://hyperweb.app/ We really shouldn't have to choose this or that, but should be able to easily use multiple choices in search. You can do that today as explained here, but you'll need to switch browsers. htt…
Comment linking /2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.html
on “Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine”Submitted Privacy Is Not Just About You as a story · 5 points
HN discussionone sustained by their own walls and that of frenemies: browser, OS, device. https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...
Comment linking /2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.html
on “Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance”Submitted Freedom to Seek Matters as a story · 5 points
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