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November 27, 2024

Why Mojeek?

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Why Mojeek?

Dear Mojeek Community,

This month we're looking at how Mojeek got its name, how you can convince more people to protect their privacy online, and which browsers you can most quickly and easily use Mojeek on.


Mojeek, Why The Name? How Do You Say It?

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One question that we get every now and again is how Mojeek got its name, whether Mojeek means anything, or has some kind of etymology related to our mission to build the world’s alternative search engine. How did a technology company with such an important and lofty aim go about choosing its name? Read more...


API Update

Ranking scores for search results are now available from the Mojeek API for all customers. Access to these scores makes impementation of clustering easier, can help when mixing Mojeek API responses with other data sources, and gives you agency over which of the responses to use.


Privacy Is Not Just About You

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At the end of the day, for privacy to truly be effective it has to be normalised. We need to think beyond your privacy and my privacy, and consider our privacy. Ours at scale; at a scale where digital surveillance is no longer considered the norm in society. Read more...


Mojeek-Friendly Browsers

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You can add Mojeek to the vast majority of browsers, with only a few putting up walls to custom search engines. This piece is a round up of all the browsers where selecting Mojeek is as easy as picking it from a dropdown list or, even better, just downloading the browser.
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A Mojeek Tip

Mojeek predominantly uses lexical matching, meaning that the words which are used in the query are matched explicitly to the text on the page; words such as who, where, what can often be unnecessary signals which prevent the return of higher-quality results.

Take for example:

  • who is the king of sweden, vs
  • sweden king.

Mojeek here is matching “who”, “king”, and “sweden”; it is unlikely that “who” is going to add much, providing quality pages exist - quality information is rarely phrased in questions. When in doubt, less is more.


Community and Other Links

  • DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports - what's your take?
  • Thunderbird for Android Now Available - K-9 Mail users have a new, more full-featured option.

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