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Building your own search infrastructure from scratch is hard. Especially in a monopolised market: 90% Google and 5% Microsoft with Bing proxies fighting over the rest.
Democratised Internet? Consumer choice? Market competition? Instead, we have $4.6trillion and $3.1trillion companies controlling the entire supply chain.
True independence is truly rare. But essential to maintain a resilient information ecosystem with unbiased access to the wealth of knowledge on the web.
Try Mojeek ✊️
ALT True independence is rare in search engine marketplace
Google and Bing power most ‘sovereign’ search engines in Europe and they collect the rent.
Not Mojeek.
The only search engine to build everything from the ground up with zero rent paid to Big Tech.
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ALT Sovereignty is ownership… not paying rent to Big Tech.
Google’s $4trillion empire. 190,000 workers. $15billion marketing spend. Planetary dominance.
The Galactic Empire vs The Rebel Alliance.
Mojeek’s independent tech. Small team. No marketing budget. The rebels defending sovereignty.
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ALT Sovereignty is a battle against all odds.
Dependence on Big Tech means complex privacy policies with complex legal language you can’t read.
Independence is a sovereign choice.
It's why the first search engine in the world with no tracking still has a straightforward privacy policy.
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ALT Sovereignty doesn’t need Big Tech policies.
Every search query triggers a complex operating system of servers, databases, algorithms etc.
1 search across 10 billion webpages takes about 0.2 seconds.
It’s a seemingly impossible task but that’s why there’s only one sovereign search engine in Europe.
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ALT Sovereignty is doing the impossible.
Building search engine infrastructure with zero dependency on big tech isn’t easy.
But sovereignty is worth it.
The decision to build (not rent) ensures we all have independent access to the web.
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ALT Sovereignty is built from the ground up.
Privacy isn’t a regulatory hassle, court order, marketing tactic or extra feature to bolt on.
It’s built from the ground up.
The search engine that pioneered zero tracking has your curiosity protected by default.
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ALT Curiosity is your right. Not a tracking number.
Data mining and monetisation of human behaviour on the web created the biggest monopolies in human history.
Your Data. Their empire.
Imagine what they can build with paragraphs of conversational data compared to short and simple search queries.
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ALT Your data built their empire. Don’t let it build the next one.
20 years ago, Mojeek’s founder made the radical decision to publish the first no tracking privacy policy for a search engine.
It was an ethical choice.
Two decades later, the data economy remains a challenge with your privacy a regulatory, legal and political football.
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ALT Celebrating 20 Years as First Search Engine with No Tracking Privacy Policy
Does your search engine’s name begin with B, D or G? It’s ethical score is at best “average” and at worst “poor”. Ethical Consumer took a look and weren’t impressed.
Have you taken a look?
Check out the search engine starting with M. You’re supporting the top scoring ethical option which quietly leads on privacy protection, the climate, tax conduct etc.
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ALT Ethics are the things you do when nobody’s looking
Google swapped “Don’t be evil” with “Do the right thing”. Evil was a low bar anyway. But mottos are just words if your ethics score is lowest in the industry.
Do the right thing.
Mojeek live and breathe “Do the right thing”. The right choice for people and the planet is rarely the easy one. But the highest ethical score matters to us.
Ethics scores based on Ethical Consumer research on search engines published June 2026
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ALT Do the right thing
Greenwashing. Privacy posturing. Tax avoidance. Law breaking. Military links. Big budgets mask poor ethics with marketing to make you feel good.
Your ethics. Your choice.
100% green energy powering every search. Strict privacy policies. All taxes paid. No laws broken. Ethical companies have an ethos which runs deep.
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ALT Ethics isn’t a marketing campaign. It’s an operating model.
Mojeek was awarded the highest ethical score when compared to other search engines across a range of categories.
From climate responsibility and privacy protections to online safety and tax conduct, independent research by @EC_magazine confirms Mojeek is the leading ethical search engine with the top score.
This matters to us. Our founding mission to “do the right thing” is our commitment to put people and the planet before profits.
Critical to our company ethos is zero dependency on big tech or big finance as independence gives us the freedom to offer a genuine alternative to search engines with very little ethics.
As gatekeepers to the web, search engines decide what people see, learn and believe. They power billions of searches every day. They have your privacy in their hands.
They decide online safety policies and whether to pay fair taxes. The gatekeeping role comes with an ethical responsibility, which we take seriously.
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ALT The Most Ethical Search Engine in the World
Mail, Messaging, Browser, Cloud, Socials… the web is full of alternatives to Big Tech which keeps you locked into their ecosystem.
Do One Thing Today
Try an alternative. It might seem a hassle. It’ll be different. But that’s the point. Independent tech is different and diversity brings choice.
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ALT Big Tech doesn’t own the internet. You do. Switch to alternatives and send a message.
If you want to be the answer, you need to own the answer.
Mojeek will always be a search engine that connects you to the web. Not an answer engine. We serve you, without dependency on big tech or big finance, so we took a very different approach with summaries:
Opt-in and secondary to core search function so you’re in control.
Not automatically generated so it’s your choice to see a summary.
Up to ten sources with publisher links so you’re free to explore information.
Publisher content displayed word-for-word so information isn’t modified.
No monitoring, interpretation or mediation so you have full transparency.
Independent access to the wealth of knowledge on the web is human right.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, gave away his rights to the source code as he wanted the web to be a free and universal public good.
“This Is For Everyone”
Google had other plans. $4.3T corporation generating $1B+ per day from harvesting your data and selling you adverts. Mojeek is a vote for Berners-Lee.
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ALT Access to information on the web is your right. Not a product to be packaged and sold back to you.
Google control about 90% of searches. Microsoft around 5%. Bing proxies fight over the rest.
Except Mojeek.
100% independent of Big Tech for free and unbiased access to the wealth of human knowledge on the web.
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ALT Monopolies don’t happen overnight. Neither does breaking them. But we can. One search at a time.
From our blog on AI:
Mojeek is Not an Answer Engine: blog.mojeek.com/2025/09/moje…
Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? blog.mojeek.com/2024/05/is-t…
Generative AI Threatens Diversity & Hyperlinks blog.mojeek.com/2023/05/gene…
Will Chatbots Kill the Search Star? blog.mojeek.com/2023/02/will…
New Blog Post on the History of Information Storage and Searching
blog.mojeek.com/2026/01/brie…
Ways to use Mojeek on Mobile
mojeek.com/support/smartphon…
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