"One of the biggest issues with modern search engines is that they're a huge privacy concern, hoovering up your data, tracking you across the web, and building a unique profile of you. It's the same with the advent of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Perplexity; you can ask and search for what you want, but it's all being logged."
"Running a search engine in 2026 isn't an easy task. We've come to expect so much more from our search engines outside of just receiving responses related to our queries. And that's without thinking about the size of the internet these days and the need to constantly crawl the web for its ever-expanding and changing content. Search requires a huge amount of expensive data center capacity and power, too. Infrastructure wasn't exactly cheap in 2025, and prices are only set to rise further in 2026."
Mojeek is an independent search engine that crawls the web with its own infrastructure and maintains a proprietary index called Gravity. The engine does not track users for advertising and avoids third-party profiling, offering stronger privacy than mainstream search services and many privacy-branded alternatives. Building and operating a separate index requires significant data-center capacity, power, and ongoing crawling to keep pace with web growth. Many privacy-focused competitors instead license results from large providers like Bing and add privacy layers, which reduces infrastructure costs but preserves dependency on big tech. The privacy benefits come with trade-offs in features and convenience compared with modern search tools.
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