All those who doubted me when I said that Bingʼs index was in the 1 to 2 milliards …
This is where Inktomi was over two decades ago, and itʼs a fraction of the size of Mojeekʼs.
update: for me and so far, #mojeek is either very much spot on or clearly bad. i had to fall back to #kagi often, but will continue this experiment for longer.
Thank you @Mojeek for the stickers! You've officially been added to my worklaptop's lid of good tools to use, for all colleagues and workrelations to see!
I've been using either @Mojeek or #StartPage on my browsers. Over the last two years of using #Mojeek it has become noticeably better, but not so much for StartPage...
Si vous ne connaissez pas #mojeek c'est un moteur de recherche britannique qui n'enregistre pas votre vie privée pour la revendre, et qui surtout propose son propre index 👍 : c'est-à-dire qu'il fait sa propre base, sans s'appuyer sur Bing comme DuckDuckGo par exemple.
C'est la seule alternative respectueuse des utilisateurices face à Google ou Bing.
Mojeek est peut-être moins fourni que ces deux-là mais il est plus propre à mon sens et ne cesse de s'améliorer.
Any plans to add !bangs in @Mojeek? Bangs was the main reason #DuckDuckGo was my default search engine for so long.
I've kept #Mojeek there for a few weeks, but I keep switching to DDG just for the bangs 😕
I suppose a better solution would be to include bang-like functionality directly in #Firefox because why hit an external website, but not sure if any plugins make it at seamless? 🧩
@Mojeek, something else for that big list of requests: a way to reach your cache. Google just discontinued¹ access to their cache. Cache access is extremely important because #Mojeek search results often lead to exclusive gate-kept websites like Cloudflare. We need a way to reach that content when it appears in search results. This is what stops me from using Mojeek. #Searx instances offer a cache option (though they cheat and just redirect to archive.org).
Long-shot: are there any mojeek syndicates that have a search UI that offers a mirror or cache alternate link?
BTW, your article mentions #Gigablast but i think they’re gone now.
It’s unclear what happened with Google. They said they will stop caching sites but that’s obviously not true because they need the cache inherently for indexation. Which suggests they intend to make it inaccessible to the public. Though if that’s true, then it would be all-or-nothing, not continued access to old caches.
Gotta say, @Mojeek is pretty awesome on the #Dillo browser on this my super-distraction-free #OpenBSD writing laptop.
Good on you guys. I have an easier time using you than #DuckDuckGo on low-tech web browsers. I think I'll switch all my super-low-end web 1.0 browsing to #mojeek ;)
It's only a single example, but I find it indicative of the results I get using https://kagi.com as my primary #searchengine.
Out of 4 #search engines (#Kagi, #DuckDuckGo, #Google, and #Bing), only Kagi gave me a result that was a review of someone actually using a microphone with a jogging stroller – and it was the top result. The others are basically just a jumble of unrelated microphone and #joggingstroller reviews.
Oh, and I also tested #Mojeek#search because I find it a very interesting entrant in the #searchengine space. Sadly, the results for this particular query were really, really bad – almost exclusively SEO junk as far as I can tell.
@fribbledom all my search engine choices that use results from google and #mojeek are being blocked now. i do not use google nor bing directly on purpose.
God the internet sucks now. Google any question and the top 10 results are all just endless AI blabbering, it's like how every essay written in high school started with "Since the dawn of time, mankind has wanted to..."
@zeh@alcinnz
>have been seeing the worse results from duckduckgo
We're not the only ones who have been complaining about this recently. I was very happy with DDG for years and I still really like the fact that I can search the Free Software Directory by adding !fsd to my keywords. But their general search results have gone massively downhill in the last year or two, and I blame Bing.
#Gigablast ← does their own crawling, but what happened?.. they were dissolved last year & seem to now be www.alltheinternet.com
#Ombrelo ← a proxy but more advanced than the others (filters/downranks Cloudflare sites)
#YaCy is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.
I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.
And I would love it even more if it would make replacements:
@farooqkz good point! That post was long ago when I didn't fully understand the nuances between #foss and #opensource, and I guess #privacy also crept in somewhere 😅
I should write a new intro, actually 🖋️
#Mojeek is my default for the moment (not open source I know) but I incidentally stumbled upon @Seirdy's search engines post just yesterday, so I'm exploring those too!