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June 20, 2024

Myths, Fair Use, SEO

Mojeek now has more pages than there are people in the world - according to Worldometer, and we're not done crawling yet! This email dives into some wider topics about search and the web that we've been turning over since our last Newsletter.

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Myths, Fair Use, SEO

Dear Mojeek Community,

Mojeek now has more pages than there are people in the world - according to Worldometer, and we're not done crawling yet!

This email dives into some wider topics about search and the web that we've been turning over since our last Newsletter.


Search Engine Myths?

King Midas of myth sitting at a table. The table contains a multitiude of different golden foods.

Myths abound about search engines and notably Google search. We briefly explain our perspective about five important aspects of search engines which should be better understood. Read more...


Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over?

A diagram showing the difference between answer engines and search engines, answer engines follow web hyperlinks, use web data for their AI, and then seek to keep you where they give answers, whereas search engines use hyperlinks to make web data accessible through hyperlinks, linking back to the places they've been to gather these data

We looked into the process of blocking AI crawlers via robots.txt, and did some research into which websites are blocking which crawlers. Read more...


Google vs SEOs

Two people engaged in a tug of war in suits

As we are constantly looking for people talking about search on the web, it has been impossible to avoid a recurring topic in the SEO subreddit of recent. Read more...


A Mojeek Tip - The Education Focus

As we announced in our Share Your Focus blog, you can now submit your creations via the Focus Templates Repo. When these are rolled into Mojeek, they become accessible by all those using Focus.

The first of these is now up, and can be used to perform searches across university TLDs as well as some encyclopedias. This means you can use queries such as "Philosophy" and have returns from a wide range of educational resources.

You can enable and use it now from your Dashboard.


Community and Other Links

  • NO dark theme? - Spoiler, there is now a dark theme
  • Check out Tara Calishain who writes a lot about search and has been doing some interesting projects, including using the Mojeek API

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