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May 17, 2023

Farewell Gigablast

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Farewell Gigablast (for now?)


Dear Mojeek Community,

In this newsletter we say goodbye to another search engine; one which, like us, took the harder route of actually building an index, instead of relying upon Google or Bing. It was disheartening to see so few mentions of its sudden disappearance, and so we felt it only right to put something out about it.

We’ve also included our lastest updates post, a piece on the Mojeek API, and an important tip you might find useful when using Mojeek.

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Farewell Gigablast (for now?)

When Mojeek started it wasn’t Google that was seen as our competitor. Having been developed and run by a single person, there was only one true yardstick for us, and that was Gigablast. Like Mojeek, Gigablast was also run by a single person, Matt Wells. Matt had previously worked for Infoseek search engine, and Mojeek was starting from scratch, so he had the jump on us. But we grew in step, albeit one behind. Read more…

Mojeek Updates, March 2023

Here’s a rundown of what’s changed or new on Mojeek since our January update. Including changes to News, Crawling, and our Press Page. Read more…

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Reasons to Use the Mojeek Search API

Search services like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yahoo get almost all their search results via the Bing search engine API. A few use a Google API to get search results, like Startpage. At Mojeek we have always had API customers, but recently we are seeing increased demand. This is undoubtedly due to our improved search quality and growing index. Two newer reasons, linked to generative AI, have also come to the fore. Read more…


A Mojeek Tip

Mojeek uses lexical not semantic search. In other words Mojeek looks for explicit matches to the words or phrases in your search query. These search queries are compared with text in the webpages that we have indexed and their incoming links.

Mojeek does not attempt to interpret meaning from your query. So you should be explicit about what you are seeking.


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