{"slug": "mojeek", "name": "Mojeek", "category": "search", "category_name": "Search", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 2, "warners": 0, "score": 1.117, "rising": 1.0, "first": "2026-01-21", "latest": "2026-08-03", "why": "I do include it in my personal metasearch results though, and find it worth paying for their API access", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I do include it in my personal metasearch results though, and find it worth paying for their API access", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Mojeek"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 786555584, "item_id": 49159724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159724", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do include it in my personal metasearch results though, and find it worth paying for their API access", "excerpt": "Mojeek is okay, but I think I'd struggle to use it as my primary search. I do include it in my personal metasearch results though, and find it worth paying for their API access (at my usage it's only about $20/year). If a page shows up in both Brave & Mojeek, it's probably a good one. I thought I'd tried Yacy, but apparently not - it's a distributed search. SearX is by asciimoo, the same person who has moved on to ma", "context": "", "use_case": "metasearch results", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 786502739, "item_id": 49156421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156421", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In my case, the combination of Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia covers all my search needs.", "excerpt": "If you don't mind paying and someone else having control over your search experience, Kagi is an option. Urkey (sp?) is another new alternative. If you just want a free search engine, Brave is probably the best index. Bonus points to Marginalia for finding the obscure things Brave doesn't surface. But if you want to go down the rabbit hole, it's easy to build your own metasearch engine and search several engines at o", "context": "", "use_case": "metasearch source", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "SyneRyder", "context": "built personal metasearch engine", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713027", "date": "2026-01-21"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["metasearch results", "metasearch source", "search for an open source project", "upstream search results"], "compared": [{"slug": "brave", "name": "Brave", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "marginalia-search", "name": "Marginalia Search", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "kagi", "name": "Kagi", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "duckduckgo", "name": "DuckDuckGo", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155492", "title": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232158", "title": "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678", "title": "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"compare": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 786555584, "item_id": 49159724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159724", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I do include it in my personal metasearch results though, and find it worth paying for their API access", "excerpt": "Mojeek is okay, but I think I'd struggle to use it as my primary search. I do include it in my personal metasearch results though, and find it worth paying for their API access (at my usage it's only about $20/year). If a page shows up in both Brave & Mojeek, it's probably a good one. I thought I'd tried Yacy, but apparently not - it's a distributed search. SearX is by asciimoo, the same person who has moved on to ma", "context": "", "use_case": "metasearch results", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 786502739, "item_id": 49156421, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156421", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In my case, the combination of Brave, Mojeek & Marginalia covers all my search needs.", "excerpt": "If you don't mind paying and someone else having control over your search experience, Kagi is an option. Urkey (sp?) is another new alternative. If you just want a free search engine, Brave is probably the best index. Bonus points to Marginalia for finding the obscure things Brave doesn't surface. But if you want to go down the rabbit hole, it's easy to build your own metasearch engine and search several engines at o", "context": "", "use_case": "metasearch source", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"}, {"id": 755723568, "item_id": 47232723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232723", "by": "lucasluitjes", "date": "2026-03-03", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Mojeek was the exception, sort of.", "excerpt": "I've been annoyed with Google search quality lately and was wondering how the others fared on this specific issue. Turns out, mostly not much better. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia, Brave all had the github repo and nanoclaw.net (the fake homepage) in the first or second place. Marginalia had fascinating results about biology but only tangentially related Nanoclaw results, not the github repo or either the fake or r", "context": "", "use_case": "search for an open source project", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"}, {"id": 747408435, "item_id": 46713027, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713027", "by": "SyneRyder", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "But I do still rely on Brave / Mojeek / Marginalia to do much of the heavy lifting for me.", "excerpt": "+1 so much for this. I have been doing the same, an SQLite database of my \"own personal internet\" of the sites I actually need. I use it as a tiny supplementary index for a metasearch engine I built for myself - which I actually did to replace Kagi. Building a metasearch engine is not hard to do (especially with AI now). It's so liberating when you control the ranking algorithm, and can supplement what the big engine", "context": "built personal metasearch engine", "use_case": "upstream search results", "switched_from": "", "story": "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"}]}