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Mojeek – 1.5B Pages and Growing (2016)
- zitterbewegung 10y agoTried it out with searching for snapchat on news. All of the top results are from last week but todays news of their 12% drop is hidden in the results? Wouldn't newer news be more relevant https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=snapchat&fmt=news&news=1 https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=snapchat&fmt=news&news=1 ?
- kbd 10y agoVisited their blog, typed a simple search for "python"[1] into their search box, and got "Sorry your search appeared automated and was blocked." https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=python&site= https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=python&site=
- i336_ 10y agoI wonder if the IP you searched from was unfortunately caught in the crossfire of a currently-flagged subnet.
- rspeer 10y agoOddly enough, I got that when I followed your link, then searched again and got results. The results, however, seem to be for the most popular Python pages of last decade, including mod_python, PIL, and several results about Plone.
- sarang23592 10y agoI got the same error when I searched python
- phowat 10y agoI got the same error searching after clicking the submission link.
- mojeek 10y agoHi I'm Marc the developer of Mojeek. Sorry about this, I'm aware it's happening too often and will look into it. If you press refresh twice without doing anything else that should fix it.
- visualdensity 10y agoAlso getting the automated error message. Sorry but it's practically useless at the moment :/
- mojeek 10y agoDid you reload the error message page twice? That should fix it, if not please try searching from the homepage and let me know if neither works, thanks.
- machopacho 10y agohttps://www.mojeek.com/search?q=ycombinator+news https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=ycombinator+news vs. https://www.google.de/search?q=ycombinator+news https://www.google.de/search?q=ycombinator+news Google's first result is on track, theirs is not. A full index is not everything, your search algorithm needs to be on top as well.
- mojeek 10y agoHi, if you click the more results from news.ycombinator.com it is there but for some reason the submit page is pushing it down a place. I'll look into it, thanks.
- lqdc13 10y agolooks like it's worse than duckduckgo for programming-related searches.
- chairmanwow 10y agoA simple search for the R programming language didn't return anything about the R programming language. I'm not trying to say this isn't impressive, and they aren't doing good work. But I don't exactly think this is a good space to get into as a young company. Lots of resources have been burned by major players making subpar products.
- nerdponx 10y agoThis is the second "alt search engine" submission I've seen today. Normally I'm in favor of healthy competition in the "open/non-evil" products space. But search engines probably more than any other web-based application, benefit from economies of scale. So why bother starting another one when DuckDuckGo is already gaining mind and market share? It just seems wasteful to re-index the Web and develop algorithms for searching it when someone else is already doing it.
- code_duck 10y agoGranted, the search market is not what it was in 1999, but that's what some friends said when I first told them about Google.
- mojeek 10y agoHi, I started developing Mojeek way before DuckDuckGo as a hobby project. We also have our own search index unlike DDG, which I've only more recently had the funds to start growing.
- i336_ 10y agoHave some amusement courtesy of https://www.mojeek.com/preferences https://www.mojeek.com/preferences: Crawl date: [x] no (default) [ ] yes [ ] no (It was in amongst a bunch of other settings that also had those same 3 options) As can be seen by simply mentally timing the delay, and also by the "in 0.47s", queries seem to be being cached. That sort of admits that the cache isn't that up-to-date. Also, I tried my standard "bamboozle google" query, "ketmax", while looking for results suffixed with "35", "." and "zip". No dice. (ixquick eventually found it that one time.)
- nerdponx 10y agoWhat's that query supposed to return?
- i336_ 10y agoA ZIP file for an old DOS disassembler, which Google will readily find if passed ".zip", "35" and "ketmax" in reverse order (not strrev, reverse order) as one string with no spaces. If you leave out the "35" part of the string (and just supply the other two parts), Google has no idea what I'm talking about no matter what I try - it was ixquick that helped me find the file without that middle tidbit. Whenever I mention this bug I'm challenged with how to refer to it in a way that humans will be able to understand (without resorting to base64 or similar...) but which Google's indexer won't "get", so that the bug stays there and I'm able to point it out to people. My point is that Google's correlation system is nowhere near perfect. (I would intuitively categorize this with the much-vaunted systems that determine context, "did you mean" etc.)
- i336_ 10y agoWoops, completely forgot to complete what I was talking about the timing thing. When you first do a query, it takes 0.47s, when you redo it, it takes like 0.00 or 0.01 seconds. I have no idea how long for.
- mojeek 10y agoHi, thanks for the feedback. I'll most likely be changing the preferences back to a more traditional yes/no soon! It was meant as a clear setting and use whatever the default is for future searches (which may change). Yes the results will be cached for up to 1 hour which is why subsequent searches didn't take as long. I'm limited to how much I can index, so ZIP files have been skipped for now.
- est 10y agoAny non-ASCII character search will redirect to home page.
- simplehuman 10y agoThis was posted in Dec 2016
- sctb 10y agoThanks, we've updated the submission title.
- j_s 10y agoAnyone have any luck with the CloudFlare leak search parameters?
- kevin2r 10y agowhat are the back-end technologies used to make mojeek.com work?
- mojeek 10y agoHi, it's been developed from scratch in C by myself.
- alewis75 10y agoGreat to see an English search engine where there is no tracking and independent results are given!
- sud0x3 10y agoWhy would I use this over duckduckgo?
- lacksconfidence 10y agoWhat is being used to tune the search results, if user tracking isn't involved? I'm of course guessing here, but I would assuse no tracking means no log of queries and no log of clicked results?