And for good reason: it is one of the rare search engines compared to Google, Bing, etc.

Qwant, Ecosia, Duckduckgo… these are meta-search engines. They get their results from Bing. They are not search engines.

Mojeek builds its own search results, with its own robots that search the web.

And on top of that, the company behind it does not collect unnecessary data, does not analyze personal data, behavior, etc. and it is properly financed.

In short, a really good project (I talked about it in a little more detail here)

Obviously, due to its youth and limited means, Mojeek is not as relevant as Google. (and even more on search results in French)

Too often he doesn't find what I ask for.

That's why it's not my default search engine.

But recently, I found one strong point:

Mojeek is very good for finding small independent blogs/sites! And that even in French searches

Over the last few days, I've made a lot of little discoveries thanks to Mojeek. Discoveries that I didn't make (while I was doing the same search) on Swisscows (which uses Bing) or Qwant (which also uses Bing and a bit of its own index)

(for the curious: I did some research with the titles of books that I liked, to see if there were any blogs that talked about them)

Bing doesn't care about small independent blogs/sites!

You can't find them in the search results.

While on Mojeek, you can find them!

It's really cool. It's like discovering a part of the internet that's hidden!

Bing also tends to put results in English, whereas your search is in French (and you have configured the search engine so that it is in French)

Whereas if you set Mojeek to get you results in French, it will really get you results in French.

In fact, it gives the impression that Bing is trying to give you somewhat universal results, which could suit almost everyone, and at the same time exclude anything that is too “small” or “specific”

While Mojeek leaves room for the small and specific.

And that’s really cool!

Because that means you can discover new sites/blogs again with a search engine.

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