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Mojeek: not US but gives far right results?
(lemmy.ca)
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?
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.