HoppyBeerKid

At Mojeek we pronounce it preganté

Great question that one, we think that if people asked this question more then we'd probably be in a much better place. If you want to dive into this in a big way, we recently wrote a post about it, covering investment and actual revenue streams (https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/10/who-funds-mojeek.html).

People fielding you long articles to answer questions isn't fair though, so I'll cut it short here for you: we currently are testing a contextual adverts programme, much like some other non-tracking search offerings, we also have the ability to monetise our API, and have been looking at many other interesting and new options, like the payments for the Web models suggested by entities like Coil (https://coil.com/).

One thing which is massively useful to us is the feedback button at the bottom of the page, if you search using Mojeek and the results aren't great then this is a very useful way of co-building/improving the search engine. Re-crawling is a part of what we do, and hopefully the new servers that we are putting in place at the moment will mean this will happen less and less.

Mojeek says it's hard to tell: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=am+i+gregnant

DuckDuckGo also provide non-tracking search, but they do not engage in crawling (the process by which an index of results is built). DuckDuckGo uses Bing and Yandex in order to provide the people using DDG with results (what we call a metasearch engine), whereas Mojeek runs servers which go out to the Web and collect the information needed to build an index. We maintain a pretty cool resource here: searchenginemap.com/ which shows you where results come from when you're using a search engine or metasearch engine.