Mojeek
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| Web address | www |
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Type of site
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Web search engine |
| Available in | English, French, German |
| Written in | C programming language |
| Owner | Mojeek Limited[1] |
| Created by | Marc Smith |
| Launched | October 2004[2] |
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Alexa rank
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 196,720 (May 14, 2019[update])[3] |
| Current status | Online |
Mojeek is a web search engine based in the United Kingdom.[4] The search results provided by Mojeek come from its own index of web pages, created by crawling the web.[5][6]
History
In 2004, the Mojeek search engine started out as a personal project by Marc Smith at the Sussex Innovation Centre. The search technology was created from the ground up using mostly the C programming language and for much of its early life, the servers were run from Marc's bedroom.[7]
After receiving investment, Mojeek was officially incorporated as a limited company in 2009.[8]
In 2006, Mojeek became the first search engine to have a no tracking privacy policy. This policy remains in place to this day. [9]
On 26 January 2011, it was highlighted as an alternative British-based search engine during a Parliamentary debate on UK internet search engines over "allegations of manipulation of Google's search results, particularly the unfavourable treatment of its unpaid and sponsored results, and the preferential placement of [their] own services."[10]
On 15 April 2015, the BBC's World Global Show and Radio 5 Live talked to Marc about the Mojeek search engine and the EU's decision to file a complaint against Google over alleged anti-competitive behaviour.[11]
In 2017, in partnership with EMRAYS Technologies, Mojeek launched a demo of their emotional search engine which allows users to search for pages with certain emotional content.[12]
As of May 2019, Mojeek's index contains over 2.3 billion pages.[13]
As of 2013, Mojeek’s servers are run from the Custodian data centres in Maidstone.[14]
Key features
Mojeek is a crawler-based search engine that provides independent[15] search results using its own index of web pages, rather than using results from other search engines.
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- ↑ Top 10 Search Engines in the UK 18-03-25
- ↑ More than £1.5 billion of revenue passes through servers held at Custodian Data Centre, the high-security site in Maidstone, Kent Online, 17-03-02
- ↑ Expert Internet Searching: Fifth edition ISBN 978-1-78330-249-9
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- ↑ Mojeek Colocation Case Study, Custodian Data Centre, 18-06-30
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