# Mojeek 14 Hacker News commenters recommended Mojeek and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended as an independent search engine with its own crawler and index, and a good API. Some say it is a bit obscure and not a full primary search. ## Why people recommend it - Used alongside Brave and Marginalia (4 comments): "Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia and EU Search Perspective have certainly been much friendlier to deal with." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301159)) "I still rely on Brave / Mojeek / Marginalia to do much of the heavy lifting for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713027)) "the combination of Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia covers all my search needs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156421)) - Own independent index and crawler (2 comments): "it is probably a good idea to have more options available that have their own independent index engine (for example Mojeek)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827338)) "100% independent with their own crawler, index and algorithms" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283027)) - Results close to Google (2 comments): "subjectively pretty close to Google (I prefer it to Bing/DDG)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139427)) "For my uses, it's undistinguishable from Google." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669721)) - Finds pages others miss (2 comments): "only Mojeek/(yandex.ru with the nanoclaw.dev/ru) were able to reference it earlier than .net" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233290)) "found it to be the only one which worked for that case" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265693)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Kagi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kagi.md): 732 recommend - [DuckDuckGo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/duckduckgo.md): 286 recommend - [SearXNG](https://hackerapproved.com/p/searxng.md): 76 recommend - [Brave Search](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brave-search.md): 67 recommend - [Startpage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/startpage.md): 25 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.mojeek.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Mojeek", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mojeek/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).