This unique index is the key differentiator between Mojeek and its competitors. The engine has been building its own index from scratch since 2006 which currently stands at around 2.3 billion pages with the aim of passing 4 billion by the end of 2019. The elevator pitch for Mojeek is ‘Independent and unbiased search results with no user tracking.’ Here are some of my takeaways from that and from my own deep dive into the world of Mojeek. The debate about technical choices and hurdles, the ethics of search, as well as the value of fledgling engines in the era of Google’s dominance raged on for another 48 hours after the initial livechat. However, Google is going to make it a part of the initial setup of Android devices starting in March.A couple weeks ago, Marc and Finn from Mojeek hosted a Reddit AMA about their project. Currently, a choice of browsers appears on the screen, when a user launches the Play Store for the first time.
There were some other popular players like PrivacyWall, Qwant and Yandex. , a metasearch engine with a social networking twist, grabbed the second spot in the rankings. Bing, which is owned and operated by Microsoft, did not feature even in the top three in any of the EU countries except the UK. Except for the United Kingdom (UK), where Bing topped the list, DuckDuckGo grabbed the top spot in all the EU countries. During the process, the search giant rolled out a variety of search engine options to its users in the middle of last year.Īfter recording the choice of its users, the search engine giant revealed the result, in which DuckDuckGo came out as the clear winner. After the EU ruled that Android users should be provided with a choice of search engine and browser, Google had held an auction to search for an alternative search engine. DuckDuckGo has emerged as the most popular alternative search engine among Android users in the European Union (EU) countries.