Over the last couple of days, a few posts on Lemmy led me to read more about:
- Alternatives to (US-based) Wikipedia (triggered by a few comments in this /c)
- Gamergate & Rabid Puppies
Thus I found out about Infogalactic (I won't link to it); it's a fork of Wikipedia created by a far-right white supremacist mysogynist "Vox Day" (a sci fi author and publisher who tried to rig the Hugo Awards to show his disdain for non-white, non-male authors) so as to have an encyclopaedia free of "the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]".
Trying out Mojeek today, I did a search (population of Rome through history) and an Infogalactic page (History of Rome) was the 6th result.
Not only was a far right website I had never seen before in the 8 years of its existence one of the top results, but the Wikipedia page it forked is nowhere to be found.
- Is this common with Mojeek?
- Are there ways to adjust its settings so as to not return far right search results?
- And should we just stop recommending Mojeek as an alternative to US search engines as long as it does return far right search results to ordinary search queries?
6 Comments
XenoK@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
Yeah, Mojeek isn't really there yet imo. I heard Qwant and Ecosia are working on a search engine and crawler together, but you could use one of them until that's released. I personally went with Qwant.
klu9@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
One reason I thought Mojeek could be my solution was that it can make use of Qwant and Ecosia and others, a metasearch.
I'll keep experimenting; also trying out Mwmbl and Good-Search.
projectzoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Pirata@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
How do you set it up like so? I couldn't find such settings.
Anyways, Consider whether using that is the best thing we can be doing for the EU... Using anonymous search engines instead of a local one that will at least profit some and pay taxes here.
projectzoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Pirata@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah, in the end I managed to make it work. Quite cool. I wanted to set it up in such a way that all EU SEs get a tick every time I search for something but sadly it seems Startpage is giving me issues.
klu9@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
I've been using the Firedragon web browser which comes with its own instance of SearxNG as default, but sometimes it gives an error message when I search, and almost always slows me down with a Cloudflare bot check.
Do you have a preferred SearxNG instance?
projectzoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
klu9@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Why do you prefer it?