Mojeek
Hacker ApprovedRanked 20 of 38 search engines by recommenders
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.
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.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 11 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 11 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Used alongside Brave and Marginalia
“Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia and EU Search Perspective have certainly been much friendlier to deal with.”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “Gemini 3.7 Flash” “I still rely on Brave / Mojeek / Marginalia to do much of the heavy lifting for me”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi” “the combination of Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia covers all my search needs”
Comment from 3 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?” - Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Advertise in ChatGPT”
Own independent index and crawler
“it is probably a good idea to have more options available that have their own independent index engine (for example Mojeek)”
Comment from 5 Nov 2025 in “Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser” “100% independent with their own crawler, index and algorithms”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore” Results close to Google
“subjectively pretty close to Google (I prefer it to Bing/DDG)”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests” “For my uses, it's undistinguishable from Google.”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update” Finds pages others miss
“only Mojeek/(yandex.ru with the nanoclaw.dev/ru) were able to reference it earlier than .net”
Comment from 3 Mar 2026 in “I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project” “found it to be the only one which worked for that case”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise”
Other search engines people recommend
The four most recommended other search engines, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kagi | 732 | 234 | 76% | 13 | 2 yrs106 owners | Approved |
| Google Search | 315 | 1,039 | 23% | 12 | 20 yrs25 owners | — |
| DuckDuckGo | 286 | 204 | 58% | 12 | 3.5 yrs47 owners | — |
| Hister | 81 | 9 | 90% | 9 | 2 mo17 owners | Approved |
| MojeekThis page | 14 | 2 | 88% | 11 | — | Approved |
What people said
21 of the 28 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“subjectively pretty close to Google (I prefer it to Bing/DDG)”
“For my uses, it's undistinguishable from Google.”
“Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia and EU Search Perspective have certainly been much friendlier to deal with.”
“I think I'd struggle to use it as my primary search”
“the combination of Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia covers all my search needs”
“The other ones being Marginalia and Mojeek.”
“Mojeek and Serper aren't EU so that's just false.”
“100% independent with their own crawler, index and algorithms”
“I've been using non-Gulag search engines for many (5+) years now.”
“there are good options like DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Ecosia”
“Mojeek [3], if your searches are more EU-centric”
“Mojeek has the best API to work with”
“found it to be the only one which worked for that case”
“Mojeek gave higher ranking to two third party articles, but linked to both the official GitHub and website without fakes.”
“only Mojeek/(yandex.ru with the nanoclaw.dev/ru) were able to reference it earlier than .net”
“Mojeek seems interesting now from this observation”
“Mojeek was the exception, sort of.”
“I still rely on Brave / Mojeek / Marginalia to do much of the heavy lifting for me”
“mojeek (a little bit obscure)”
“can do this with the before: operator”
“it is probably a good idea to have more options available that have their own independent index engine (for example Mojeek)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.