Mojeek — An independent search engine with its own crawled web index that does not track users, offering web, image, and news search from a UK-based company founded in 2004.
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Best for: privacy-conscious users who want a search engine with its own independent index rather than reranked Google or Bing results
Pricing: Free for consumer search with no account required; API and advertising products are priced separately for businesses.
- Mojeek operates its own independently crawled web index of over 9 billion pages as of 2025.
- Mojeek does not track users or set tracking cookies by default.
- Mojeek is free to use for web, image, news, and Substack blog search with no account required.
- Mojeek was founded in 2004 and is based in Brighton, England.
- Mojeek sells a Web Search API, Site Search API, and Mojeek Ads to businesses to fund the free consumer product.
Limitations: Index coverage is smaller than Google's or Bing's, especially for niche and non-English queries.; No dedicated native mobile app.; Fewer specialized search verticals like maps, shopping, or flights.
Top alternatives: DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Startpage, Ecosia — full list
What is Mojeek?
Mojeek is a search engine built on its own independently crawled index, distinguishing it from most alternative search engines (Startpage, DuckDuckGo's non-Bing modes) that rerank results sourced from Google or Bing. Mojeek does not track users, does not set tracking cookies by default, and does not build advertiser profiles from search history. Founded as a personal project in 2004 by Marc Smith and now operated from the Sussex Innovation Centre in Brighton, England, Mojeek has taken over two decades to grow its independent index past 9 billion pages, a scale still far smaller than Google's. Beyond the free consumer search product, Mojeek sells a Web Search API and Site Search API for embedding search into other applications, plus Mojeek Ads, a privacy-respecting advertising platform, which together fund the free tier.
Mojeek is an independent search engine that crawls and ranks the web with its own index rather than reselling results from Google or Bing, and it does not track visitors or build advertising profiles. It is built for privacy-conscious users and anyone who wants a search alternative not owned by a large tech company, and it is free to use with no account required. Founded in 2004 and based at the Sussex Innovation Centre in Brighton, England, Mojeek has grown its index to over 9 billion pages as of 2025 while offering web, image, news, and Substack blog search. The company also sells Mojeek Ads and Web/Site Search APIs to businesses, which fund the free consumer product.
Standout feature: An independently crawled web index (over 9 billion pages) rather than results resold or reranked from Google or Bing, combined with no default tracking cookies.
Biggest weakness: Mojeek's independent index is far smaller than Google's or Bing's, so result relevance and coverage for niche or long-tail queries lags behind mainstream search engines, especially outside English-language content.
Pros
- Independently crawled index, not a reranked copy of Google or Bing results.
- No default tracking cookies and no advertising profile built from search history.
- Free web, image, news, and Substack blog search with no account required.
- Web Search API and Site Search API available for developers who want to embed independent search.
Cons
- Index coverage and result relevance trail Google and Bing, especially for niche, local, or non-English queries.
- No dedicated native mobile app; access is via mobile browser or third-party browser integration.
- Fewer specialized search verticals (shopping, maps, flights) than mainstream search engines.
- Business model relies on ads and API sales, which are less mature revenue streams than Google's or Microsoft's ad networks.
Mojeek pricing
Free · verified from the vendor's pricing page
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Search | Free | Web, image, news, and Substack search free for all users, with no account or subscription required. |
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