Search Engine Mojeek Delivers a UK Web Vision

Today 92% of UK citizens and businesses use Google, and almost all the rest use Microsoft’s Bing directly, or indirectly through their proxies like DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.

Can you imagine if we had two newspapers in the UK and they were the New York Times and Washington Post? Everyone talks about how social media has impacted UK publishing, discourse and democracy. We know how Amazon monpolizes eCommerce search. Yet meanwhile we ignore the invasion of British culture, and the impact on commerce and knowledge, of two giant US companies that monpolize web search.

But one UK company Mojeek sees a different path for web search and search advertising, where privacy comes first. Mojeek is the no-tracking web search engine that’s built completely independent of anyone else's technology. It is the only international search engine in Europe, and is used globally. With it’s biggest user base being in the US, it demonstrates companies can offer both sovereignity to the UK and still compete abroad.

Mojeek has succeeded where the EU has failed three times to achieve sovereignity in web search. And it has done so with investment raised only from UK angels. Mojeek is at the stage where it may have to pursue funding from abroad to scale up. It has indeed been approached by both US and Chinese companies, but would prefer to stay independent and retain UK sovereignity.

As satisfaction with Google drops, and the need for privacy and security rises, will Mojeek reshape how search is done on Berners-Lee’s Web?

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