Improved Ranking & Alternatives
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Dear Mojeek Community,
This month we're highlighting significant improvements made to rankings and clustering.
Plus, as more people look for alternatives to Big Tech, we are highlighting a few places where you can learn more.
Improved Relevance
We shipped an improved ranking algorithm this week with two major changes that provide improvement to general relevancy & navigational searches.
It was very helpful to get user feedback on this via the Mojeek evaluator - thank you to those who contributed 🙏.
Further feedback is, as always, welcome but particularly so with this change as navigational searches can sometimes be negatively impacted by this update. Please let us know when this happens or you encounter issues. The old algorithm can be compared using &m=152.
Clustering
We rolled-out improved grouping of relevant results from a domain, aka clustering, earlier this month. An example is shown below, with the old method on the left and the new one on the right. As you can see clustered results are indented. Under the hood we have improved ranking algorithms for finding the most relevant pages from a domain.
Details are available on this community post. Again we benefitted from user feedback, which was resoundingly positive 👍.
Learn and Share
Discussion about alternatives to US Big Tech have risen to a new level in this year, with much discussion about tech sovereignty. We've noticed this across numerous countries and most obviously the EU.
From our point of view the discussion should be more about what can be done to support personal sovereignty. So we wrote another short piece on how to learn about, and share what you know, about alternatives. Spread the word!
A Mojeek Tip
If you are looking to learn about search operators don't forget these are documented on the support page along with lots of other useful information.
Other Links
- The Enshitification of Big Tech - Conversation between Matt Stoller, David Dayen and Cory Doctorow.
- Reclaim The Net - Stories about Big Tech Alternatives.
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