My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA

Re:My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA by tallgiraffe on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:35PM (#26505926)

Could you help me understand two fundamental issues? (1) Why would I use Mojeek over Google and (2) how do you make money?

Key constraint: you cannot answer "because privacy" for #1, unless you can explain what that means.

Fundamentally, I don't understand why privacy matters.

Google finds stuff that I want , when I want it. How it does it doesn't concern me, as long as it can. It seems (based on using say Duck vs Google) that Google wins by a landslide in quality of search results.

Can you deliver better results with less tracking, and how would I know those are in fact better results?

And of course, if I am to trust all my search to you tool, how do I know you'd be around in 10 years?

Thanks!

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Re:My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA by ColinHayhurst on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:53PM (#26506160)

1) Different results. Google may have a near monopoly on search but their algorithm is not the only, nor perfect, lens.

2) Contextual Ads

Search is best done with more than search tool. Google+Duck+Mojeek if you like.

https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/12/popping-filter-bubbles-in-fi...

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