mozDex - The Open Search Engine

Thursday, May 06, 2004

I was glancing at my log files this morning and noticed - mozdex.com.  mozDex is a new open source search engine which is currently in beta.

I spent some time doing searches and so far the results haven’t been great.  I suspect as they crawl more and more sites this will improve.

You may be asking, Why does the world need mozDex?

Search engines are free to use like television is free to watch, but, like television programming, search results are subject to manipulation by the interests that control them. The only way one can be certain that search results are unbiased is if the technology which computes them is public. mozDex seeks to make high-quality search technology freely available. We also express concern about recent consolidation and termination of search engines out there and feel this is the best opportunity to bring an open search index based on open technologies to light.

Worth a look.

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