[mrweasel]

I have been somewhat impressed by Mojeek, but it does have two obvious flaws:

1) It not really good for localized search, it might be if you're local to the US or UK.

2) No !bangs. Coming from Ecosia I frequently just do !w !maps !yt because I know where I want the answer to come from

For English language searches, it completely usable, but not quite as good as Bing or Google. I really wanted to try to use Mojeek as my default for an extended period of time, but the lack of good local search makes it a bit annoying.

[marginalia_nu]

Local search and location-aware search is probably Google's biggest moat against smaller search engines. Bing does it passably, but it's aguably still pretty bad.

What's worse is that it's probably hard to ever get working well without the internet-scale profiling Google has access to.

[reddalo]

> Local search and location-aware search is probably Google's biggest moat

The European Union, at least, has limited that a bit by preventing Google from linking Google Maps from their SERP.

So now, if you're in the EU, local results will display a map but you can't click on it.

[mrweasel]

They might be doing it differently, but Ecosia uses Bing and have really good localized search, at least for Denmark. There is very little difference between Google and Bing these days, if anything I'd say Bing is the better search engine.

[ldng]

Perfect, localized search is the most annoying thing there is.