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by ColinHayhurst 1406 days ago
They are welcome too, but perhaps are restrained by their stakeholders.

Looking at the suggestions in the blog, and for transparency - Mojeek CEO:

> Stop trying to look like Google.

Agreed. We and our users still believe that "10 blue links" have great value. But drowning these out with too many of things like Ads, Videos and Answers on the page helps pretty much just Google.

> Arrange that algorithm to make it less vulnerable to SEO hacking.

Admittedly we don't yet have that problem yet. Still there are plenty of measures that we provide, and will expand upon to mitigate that. Without going into details these generally amount to giving users, and API customers, more control over searching and ranking.

> Discard AI-generated text.

A good idea. But can also be done on the SERPs. Do users benefit from AI answers? Mojeek is a search Engine not an answer Engine.

> Results in other languages.

Bing?

> New opportunities.

DuckDuckGo is doing a great job of providing new and improved privacy products. We stand with them on many things. I am sure they appreciate the opportunity also in providing more informational (search) diversity from and with a fully independent search stack (infrastructure, crawler, index, ranking).