I just tried Mojeek and it's is probably the worst engine I've ever used. My first query I went with something standard out of my niche, "minju kpop" and #1 result was deepfake porn. The subsequent searches in other niches didn't do much better. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Google and pagerank, dude. At least it's not deepfake porn.
The problem is not their ranking but that by default SafeSearch is off on Mojeek. This is a questionable choice. Click the cog, enable SafeSearch and repeat the query. The deepfake porn is gone.
I just tried Mojeek too, and found the results to be reasonable on a selection of programming related queries. I didn't know Mojeek existed, but the design is clean and the results are fast. Ranking isn't as precise as Google but that's OK, the right result is usually still in the top results. The summarize feature worked well and was also very fast. The news is clean, hopefully more trustworthy than Google News. I love the idea of their Substack search, but they should consider unlaunching it and trying again. Although the rendering of the results is a bit off (the date runs into the URL) the bigger issue is that there doesn't seem to be any way to rank by date, and old blog posts are often near the top. That's probably not what's wanted for a blog search.
Honestly I don't know why this site isn't better known, if it's genuinely an independent index which it seems to be. It feels like Google in the early days. I'll definitely try it out and see how viable its ranking is.
It's really sad (but absolutely 100% predictable) to hear that self-proclaimed "Europeans" refuse to mention it. To such people "Europe" is not and never has been about regional alliances or collaboration. It is and was always a social ideology of control. The UK rejected that system and is thus in their minds no longer "European", despite that it's still there and not going anywhere.
My point was that vanity queries often look for very specific things, and beyond Google and Bing you're struggling to get that. That's the current reality. Maybe ask yourself why.
It's not an intuitive query because it yields about precisely zero results with those two words in a consecutive manner, on Google. You're chucking two spaghetti words together and expecting the search engine to figure out what you mean, which is fine to an extent but OTOH, wth do you mean?
