In 2004, the Mojeek search engine started out as a personal project by Marc Smith at the
Sussex Innovation Centre. The search technology was created from the ground up using mostly the
C programming language and for much of its early life, the servers were run from Smith's bedroom. WIRED lists the launch date for Mojeek as 2006. After receiving investment, Mojeek was officially incorporated as a
limited company in 2009. On 26 January 2011, it was highlighted as an alternative British-based search engine during a Parliamentary debate on UK internet search engines over "allegations of manipulation of
Google's search results, particularly the unfavourable treatment of its unpaid and sponsored results, and the preferential placement of [their] own services." As of 2017, Mojeek's
servers are run from the Custodian
data centres in
Maidstone. As of May 2019, Mojeek's index contained over 2.3 billion pages. It hit the 6 billion mark in October 2022. Starting mid-2023,
Kagi Search lists Mojeek as one of the sources for its results. In 2024,
Reddit blocked access to Mojeek and all non-Google search engines, ostensibly in hopes of improving its AI deals. As of 2025, Mojeek has a 'summarize these results' option using open-source
Mistral to generate the summaries.
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