Mojeek
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Marc Smith
www.mojeek.com, www.mojeek.co.uk
158,166 (January 21, 2019)[3]
October 2004; 14 years ago[4]
Online
Mojeek is a web search engine based in the United Kingdom.[5] The search results provided by Mojeek come from its own index of web pages, created by crawling the web.[6][7]
In 2004, the Mojeek search engine started out as a personal project by Marc Smith at the Sussex Innovation Centre. The search technology was created from the ground up using mostly the C programming language and for much of its early life, the servers were run from Marc's bedroom.[8] Mojeek was created with the aim of an independent and alternative search engine.[9]
In 2006, Mojeek became one of the first search engines to have a "no tracking" privacy policy[10] and started building its index from scratch the same year.[11]
After receiving investment, Mojeek was officially incorporated as a limited company in 2009.[12]
On 26 January 2011, it was highlighted as an alternative British-based search engine during a Parliamentary debate on UK internet search engines over "allegations of manipulation of Google's search results, particularly the unfavourable treatment of its unpaid and sponsored results, and the preferential placement of [their] own services."[13]
As of 2013, Mojeek’s servers are run from the Custodian data centres in Maidstone.[14]
On 15 April 2015, the BBC's World Global Show and Radio 5 Live talked to Marc about the Mojeek search engine and the EU's decision to file a complaint against Google over alleged anti-competitive behaviour.[15]
In 2017, in partnership with EMRAYS Technologies, Mojeek launched a demo of their emotional search engine which allows users to search for pages with certain emotional content.[16]
As of March 2019, Mojeek's index contains over 2.3 billion pages.[11]
Mojeek is a crawler-based search engine that provides independent[17] search results using its own index of web pages, rather than using results from other search engines. Mojeek's search results are considered to be more unbiased, which may better represent the information available.[18][19][20]
Mojeek is a search engine which has a no tracking privacy policy, meaning it does not include any personally identifiable information, or associate previous search history with any particular user, and therefore does not track users.[21]
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^ a b Richards, Luke (2019-03-05). "Alternatives to Google: Mojeek believes a truly independent and tracking-free search engine must be built from scratch". Search Engine Watch. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
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^ "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 26 Jan 2011 (pt 0002)". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
^ Mojeek Colocation Case Study, Custodian Data Centre, 18-06-30
^ "Mojeek interviewed on BBC". blog.mojeek.com. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
^ Watts, Jack (2017-07-14). "Artificial Emotional Intelligence for Web Browsing | NVIDIA Blog". The Official NVIDIA Blog. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
^ "» Have it your way with the Mojeek search engine". Pandia. 2013-05-26. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
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