Since DuckDuckGo has decided to regionalize all my search results even when no region is selected (why?!? 😩),

Making my work impossible (I don't spend my day writing about Canada DuckDuckGo! πŸ™„),

I have started to use @Mojeek and I must say that it is a real joy. I find what I'm looking for much quicker, no patronizing regionalization based on IP, and no AI pollution. It feels like I found back the 2010s web and I'm here for it.

Thank you Mojeek πŸ’š

To the excited reply guys in my replies:

  • No, I'm not claiming that Mojeek doesn't use AI anywhere, I'm simply stating that when I search a term, the result page displays no AI answer to me by default, and it seems the AI-slop results are greatly deprioritized ("no AI pollution" in my results), compared to what I get on DuckDuckGo and Start Page (and would also get with Google and Bing, but I don't use these directly).

  • This is only a post about my own personal experience, it isn't a full review of the engine, obviously.

  • If you dig into the settings and find an AI feature you could enable and don't like that, you are free to not use it, and you really don't have to tell me about it (please don't).

  • If you want to research and write a full review of search engines, please do! And please do it outside of my replies, without tagging me.

  • For anyone who knows me, yes I dislike AI features a lot, and I don't enable any of them anywhere. I seem to be able to use Mojeek getting genuine informative results free from the AI plague, and I wanted to share this joy with you. Whenever AI is put in my face against my will (like with many other search engines and countless software do) doesn't mean I'm using it. I don't use AI, ever. But yes, it's everywhere around me, to my greatest sorrow.

@Em0nM4stodon fuck em’. Glad you shared Mojeek with us cuz that’s exactly what I was looking for. It’s a damn sight better than every other search engine!
@Em0nM4stodon πŸ‘ superb, yeah I've changed my default to @Mojeek on my machines and most of the time it's just fine. Occasionally I think, hmm no that's not enough and I'll fall back to Google but I imagine that's going to happen less and less.
@Em0nM4stodon Oh you ran into those queefs.
@fiend_unpleasant Sadly did 
@Em0nM4stodon it's not just you (fortunately or unfortunately, I'm not sure) @veronica has been dealing with some real grade A pieces of shit. You may find some ideas/solace/etm following her journey.
@fiend_unpleasant @veronica Indeed, I follow her already and can relate to a lot of her experience here, sadly.
@Em0nM4stodon I'm trying it out on the work computer. I've had to open up another engine once so far (I was looking for the links to download the default tools for a particular embedded processor), we'll see how it holds up. I can live with needing to use other engines occasionally, if it's otherwise happy-making.
@Em0nM4stodon thanks for sharing I will have to give it a go.