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October 23, 2024

API, Focus, Ranking

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API, Focus, Ranking

Dear Mojeek Community,

This month we're looking at the Mojeek API, Focus, and ranking. This will particularly interest those of you who are keen to make better use of Mojeek for particular searches and/or API applications. In the process you will also learn more about how Mojeek works.


Custom Search Engines using the Mojeek API and Mojeek Focus

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Mojeek can give you back ... agency, by allowing you to search across a set of sites using Focus, either on mojeek.com or via the API. Here we will show you three examples which illustrate the variety of things that can be done with these powerful features. Read more...


How To Submit Your Focus

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In our Share Your Focus piece we launched the Focus Template Repository, allowing you to access, and contribute to, publicly-accessible Focus site lists through GitHub. This article takes you through all the steps you need to undertake to do just that, from creation to submission... Read more...


About Ranking on Mojeek

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At Mojeek, we pride ourselves on being a search engine that provides relevant and accurate results to our users, from a position of neutrality. But what does it mean when a search engine claims that it is "unbiased"? Read more...


A Mojeek Tip - Site: Searches

In order to find out how many pages we have indexed from a domain or subdomain, a site: search can be used. Here are two different uses of this operator with explanations:

  • to get a count of pages indexed and searchable for a domain, or search across it:
    domain site:domain.tld

    e.g. https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=mojeek+site%3Amojeek.com

  • to get a count of pages indexed and searchable for a subdomain, or search across it:
    domain site:subdomain.domain.tld

    e.g. https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=mojeek+site%3Ablog.mojeek.com


Community and Other Links

  • DoJ Sues Google - a long-running Community thread will bring you up-to-date with these two big antitrust cases.
  • How can i add my website to mojeek search results? - a short but useful discussion of best practice.
  • Discourse ActivityPub Plugin - would that be useful for you?

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