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@mojeek.com

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The world's alternative search engine, providing unique and unbiased search results. https://www.mojeek.com/ We believe that privacy is a human right.

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 29d

We will not replace search results with AI-generated answers.
blog.mojeek.com/2025/09/moje...

Mojeek is Not an Answer Engine

Mojeek is about Search. AI is not the Answer.

blog.mojeek.com

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 19h

Search need not burn money and the planet:
1. Build your own servers
2. Don't track users
3. Don't personalise results
4. Focus on results retrieval not AI answers

Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 2d

Celebrate the freedom to read, this week
www.mojeek.com/search?q=ban...

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 8d

FAQs about Mojeek
blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/freq...

About Mojeek; Business Model, Surveillance, and Privacy

We frequently get questions, through social networks or...

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 12d

Digital ID isn’t the answer. It’s control by design.

An iris on background of a digital display of letters for words related to security and control. Credits: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/biometrics-access-authentication-4503420/

Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 13d

Seeking knowledge without surveillance is a human right.

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 15d

Great Inventions: The Hyperlink
💡 Conceived by Ted Nelson (1960s)
🖱️ First demo by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
🌐 Brought to the world by Tim Berners-Lee (1989–91)

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 16d

Sales pitch: "Safety"
Product: Digital IDs
Benefit: Control, of you

Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 20d

Cancel culture silences speech.
Power culture silences discovery.
Freedom to seek matters.
blog.mojeek.com/2022/05/free...

A book, phone, laptop, and computer mouse, chained together

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 22d

Add Favicons to the Mojeek SERPS, using a Firefox extension.

Extension: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...
More details: community.mojeek.com/t/favicons-i...

Mojeek SERPS showing Favicons for the search query "alan turing"

Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 23d

"an eruption of laughter from the other table guests."

Source: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/g...

‘I’m glad it’s over.’ Google CEO thanks Trump for antitrust ‘resolution’ - dialogue from that dinner

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 26d

We build our own servers.
Can you guess why?

Two of the Mojeek team racking up an assembled server

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 29d

We will not replace search results with AI-generated answers.
blog.mojeek.com/2025/09/moje...

Mojeek is Not an Answer Engine

Mojeek is about Search. AI is not the Answer.

blog.mojeek.com

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Sep 5

Cave to power.
Lose the public.
FAFO.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/u... bu @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Sep 4

We've added a Focus search page to Mojeek.

Searching across a custom set of websites is now more accessible.

Here is how it works, and came about: blog.mojeek.com/2022/08/moje...

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Sep 3

"this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays" - especially when govt & business is in the same gang.

@matthewstoller.bsky.social www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-judge-le...

A Judge Lets Google Get Away with Monopoly

Judge Amit Mehta had a chance to restore some semblance of the rule of law when he handed down a remedy decision in the Google case. He didn't. Google won this round. And Wall Street is rejoicing.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 29

🇪🇺 readers:

"Chat Control" proposes mandated scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos.

Contact your MEPs to express your views 👇
fightchatcontrol.eu

Image showing Member States Undecided: Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovenia.

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 27

Web = Choice
Search engines ≠ Monoculture

Meadows, Mountains, Alpine village image.
https://pixabay.com/photos/meadows-mountains-alpine-village-6200039/

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 26

"devices that are locked down at the hardware level, without the option to unlock, are inherently anti-consumer."
medhir.com/blog/right-t...

right to root access

right to repair laws should include provisions requiring manufacturers to unlock a device's bootloader (to provide root access) upon consumer request.

medhir.com

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 22

Advice on searching effectively with Mojeek
blog.mojeek.com/2025/01/gett...
blog.mojeek.com/2022/12/how-...

How To Search (On Mojeek)

This article outlines some of the ways in which Mojeek is different from other...

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 21

URbaN Dictionary submission ...

👍👎

Answer Engine

An AI surveillance oracle that confidently serves up the official answer™ — even when it's dead wrong or flattens nuance beneath its weight.

For when you want groupthink, but faster. No need to think, doubt, or dig.

"I asked the answer engine for alternatives—it gave me the most popular opinion and told me dissent is inefficient."

by mojeek August 21, 2025

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 18

First they track you →
Then they nudge you →
Then they cage you →
Opting out is still an option ...

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 14

Dillo is a super fast, secure (no javascript), open source browser by
dillo-browser.github.io @[email protected]

Dillo is a fast and small graphical web browser with the following features:

Multi-platform, running on Linux, BSD, MacOS, Windows (via Cygwin) and even Atari.
Written in C and C++ with few dependencies.
Implements its own real-time rendering engine.
Low memory usage and fast rendering, even with large pages.
Uses the fast and bloat-free FLTK GUI library.
Support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and local files.
Extensible with plugins written in any language (see the list of plugins).
Is free software licensed with the GPLv3.

Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 13

Where are VPNs restricted?

For now 🥲

Countries where VPNS are illegal or restricted. Image from linktr.ee/amazingmap

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 12

Have you tried our "Search Choices"feature?
blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/sear...
With one click you can send the search query to another when you feel the need.

Search Choices Enable Freedom to Seek

At Mojeek we believe informational diversity is vital to a healthy...

blog.mojeek.com

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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · Aug 7

In this clip our CEO @colinhayhurst.bsky.social explains why we always had a different view, from Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, about search and AI.