Mojeek adds Search Choices

Started by Brad, February 10, 2022, 08:40:44 PM

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Brad

This means you can make a search on Mojeek and if you don't find enough links to satisfy you there are buttons at the bottom of the Serp to repeat the search on other search engines.

Details here:
https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedom-to-seek.html

This gives users a chance to try Mojeek and give it the first shot for each query and if not satisfied they can continue the search on an engine of choice.  You can change the defaults in settings which will set a cookie to remember your preferences.

I like this.

Drastic

I was remembering the other day when Google did this. It's been many years though.

Brad

I have to follow this up and say that this is an absolute hoot - great fun comparing different search engines results.  Also, fair warning, it can be a rabbit hole, at least for me. But then I'm easily distracted.

It is doing what it was intended to do: make it easier to set Mojeek as your default, cos it's so easy to carry on if you don't get satisfaction out of Mojeek.  But I'm finding Mojeek to be fairly good.

A side benefit: this has allowed me to easily test Gigablast.  I'd given up on Gigablast, for years they seemed stagnant, stale with a bad algo with few relevant results.  But that seems to have changed and there has been some improvement, which is cool.