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Official blog for Mojeek, a crawler based search engine from the United Kingdom that doesn't track its users.

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144 from 27 Sep 2013 to 18 May 2026
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2026 2

  1. The Switch to Alternative Search Engines
  2. A Brief History of Searching

2025 6

  1. Mojeek is Not an Answer Engine
  2. Searchception
  3. Learning and Sharing about Alternatives to Big Tech
  4. Leaving Big Tech
  5. Topical Custom Search Engines
  6. Getting the Best out of Keyword Web Search

2024 21

  1. How To Use Focus From Your URL Bar
  2. Automating Custom Search Engines
  3. Mojeek-Friendly Browsers
  4. Mojeek, Why The Name? How Do You Say It?
  5. Privacy Is Not Just About You
  6. Custom Search Engines using the Mojeek API and Mojeek Focus
  7. How To Submit Your Focus
  8. About Ranking on Mojeek
  9. The Fastest Engine in the West?
  10. Clustering - How Mojeek Gives You More Variety
  11. Mojeek on Waterfox
  12. How You Can Help Out Mojeek
  13. Search Engine Myths?
  14. Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over?
  15. Google vs SEOs
  16. It's The Information, Stupid
  17. Mojeek Search Summaries
  18. What Big Tech Does With Your Data
  19. Share Your Focus
  20. Major Algorithm Update; Adding A Semantic Element
  21. Mojeek; Green Logo, Green Search Engine

2023 18

  1. Search Functionality With a Difference on Mojeek
  2. Mojeek on Mullvad Browser
  3. One Model to Rule them All
  4. Mojeek Updates, November 2023
  5. NoML Proposal for Fair Use of Content in AI and Search
  6. Mojeek Updates, August 2023
  7. A Guide to Mojeek Operators
  8. Expanding Mojeek’s Image Search with Openverse
  9. Search Content from Substack’s Independent Writers
  10. New Pathways with Expanded Search Choices
  11. Generative AI Threatens Diversity and Hyperlinks
  12. Farewell Gigablast (for now?)
  13. Mojeek Updates, March 2023
  14. Reasons to Use the Mojeek Search API
  15. Mojeek and /e/OS, Full Stack Mobile Independence
  16. Will Chatbots Kill the Search Star?
  17. Are Search Engines "Deleting" the Web?
  18. Mojeek Updates, January 2023

2022 20

  1. How To Search (On Mojeek)
  2. Mojeek Updates, November 2022
  3. Build The World’s Alternative Search Engine With Us
  4. An Open Letter to Elon Musk - What about Freedom to Seek?
  5. Mojeek - Now 6 Billion Pages
  6. A Privacy Pledge for a Better Internet
  7. How We Solved Our SSD Problem
  8. Who Needs Cookies?
  9. Mojeek Focus - Search The Web You Want
  10. About Mojeek; Open Source, TOR and Crawling
  11. Pale Moon - Independent Windows and Linux Browser
  12. Freedom to Seek Matters
  13. Which Browser Should I Use On Android?
  14. Accessibility Matters at Mojeek
  15. Breaking Free of the Gatekeepers of Western Search
  16. Mojeek Vs DDG, Startpage and Other Privacy "Search Engines"
  17. Mojeek Surpasses 5 Billion Pages
  18. Search Choices Enable Freedom to Seek
  19. Introducing community.mojeek.com
  20. Looking Back at 2021

2021 23

  1. Gatekeeper Self-Preferencing and Co-operation in Search
  2. Mojeek Preference Settings; Your Results Page, Your Way
  3. Personal Data Industry; The New Tobacco?
  4. How Microsoft Sucks People In
  5. How to Use the Mojeek Calculator
  6. A New Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets
  7. In Defence of Online Anonymity
  8. Mojeek Preference Settings; Language and Location
  9. Multiple Choice in Search
  10. Smartphone Sovereignty
  11. Online Safety, Our Feedback To Government
  12. An Open Letter to Sundar Pichai
  13. Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising
  14. Mojeek Reaches the 4 Billion Page Milestone
  15. Mojeek App Improvements
  16. No-Tracking Search, How Does it Work?
  17. After The Breach, Get Ready for the Next One
  18. Frictionless Donations Support an Open Web
  19. To Track, or Not to Track? 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence
  20. Why We Support ORG
  21. Popping Filter Bubbles in Safari
  22. Stacking the Odds for Alternatives
  23. Big Data is Watching You

2020 15

  1. About Mojeek; Search Engines and Our Technology Stack
  2. About Mojeek; Business Model, Surveillance, and Privacy
  3. Popping Filter Bubbles in Firefox
  4. Black Box Friday
  5. About Mojeek; Objectives, Company, and Team
  6. Five Reasons to Use Mojeek
  7. Good bot, bad bot. How search indexing works.
  8. Popping Your Filter Bubble with Search
  9. Who Funds Mojeek?
  10. Meet Our New Head of Marketing
  11. Increased Emphasis on Communications and Design at Mojeek
  12. Will UK Government Actions Curb Google?
  13. Mojeek appoints Colin Hayhurst as CEO
  14. Three Billion Page Milestone and App Availability
  15. COVID-19, Mojeek and Remote Working

2019 7

  1. New Era New Logo
  2. 100 Server Build and Install
  3. Mojeek News Update
  4. Privacy Policy Update
  5. We're listening, how to get in touch
  6. The Search Engine Map
  7. Our Reddit AMA

2018 16

  1. Mojeek, out and about
  2. Mojeek's Monthly Must Reads
  3. Why is Mojeek different?
  4. Mojeek's Monthly Must Reads
  5. Search that doesn't follow you around
  6. Mojeek's Monthly Must Reads
  7. Image Search Launch and Infobox Update
  8. Independent and Unbiased Search Results
  9. Mojeek's Monthly Must Reads
  10. What is Mojeek?
  11. Doing what's right, Mojeek and the environment
  12. Mojeek's Monthly Must Reads
  13. Time to freshen up and new Mojeek intro video
  14. Two Billion Pages
  15. Mojeek's Monthly Must Reads
  16. GDPR and Mojeek

2017 2

  1. Shop on Mojeek, UI updates and more
  2. Emotional Web Search (Demo)

2016 2

  1. New Infobox
  2. 1.5 Billion Pages and Growing

2015 3

  1. Mojeek interviewed on BBC
  2. How to submit your site to Mojeek
  3. New Redesigned Website - January 2015

2014 4

  1. Updates and Bug Fixes - December 2014
  2. Progress Update - September 2014
  3. Lucky winner takes home prized Cheltenham memorabilia
  4. Progress Update - March 2014

2013 5

  1. Mojeek is now available over HTTPS
  2. What is a Crawler-based Search Engine? (And Why it Matters)
  3. The Problem with Vanity Metrics
  4. Mojeek Receives Major Angel Investment
  5. Growing the Index