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Has anyone done any research on the search engine Mojeek? (www.mojeek.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The searches I have trouble with are mainly support for software. For example, searching for “Kdenlive audio visualizer” results in a Kdenlive tutorial that has nothing to do with audio visualization, Kdenlive release notes and a link to a no longer available Kdenlive docs page. Searching for most stuff with “yt-dlp” will result in the top pages being the alternativeto.net page and some other pages like the GitHub topic that don’t help with the problem at all. While most of the time when trying to get software support you will find a solution, but you will have to search a lot harder. Still, I’m amazed at how much the results improved since my prior use of Mojeek. If it continues to improve like that I’ll definitely give it another go.

[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot, I've raised the Kdenlive query. When it comes to searching for stuff with "yt-dlp" you mean there's normally another phrase or words in the query? Do you have an example; understand the problem but just trying to raise it with as much of a solid example as possible 🙏

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

For example “yt-dlp select resolution” or “yt-dlp audio only”. There are some more, it feels like the pages I mentioned are just generally ranked higher.

Also really appreciate the dedication, I think Mojeek is probably the only search engine that listens this much to user feedback. Is there a Lemmy community or something similar where one kann submit queries like these?

[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks a lot; these have been raised.

I think Mojeek is probably the only search engine that listens this much to user feedback. Is there a Lemmy community or something similar where one kann submit queries like these?

We have a Discourse: https://community.mojeek.com/ but also take these direct from search results pages (there's a Submit feedback button) or via https://www.mojeek.com/about/contact. It's all super useful for us so thanks in advance.