actually awesome and fast search engine (depending on which instance you use) with no trashy AI and ADs results also great for privacy, if you don’t know which instance to use go to https://searx.space/ and choose an instance closest to you

  • Mojeek Search Engine@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    our preference is always to find out why the block is happening and try to convince people it should be otherwise; widespread abuse of robots.txt does no-one any good, having been crawling and indexing for so long it’s a standard that we understand and are quite fond of

    we can see some of the perils and pitfalls of it too, but web builders need to be given some tools and assurances that those tools will work for them

    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
      21·
      2 months ago

      That makes sense. One thing I’ve noticed with Mojeek search results compared to Google is that I do not encounter the “old web” any more on Mojeek than on Google. Are you not crawling/indexing web 1.0 blogs and sites at all?

      • Mojeek Search Engine@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        probably a sample size issue, we crawl and index everything we are able to; have seen many of this kind of site in the past, and finding them is something that other people have said they enjoy about mojeek