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?
One reason I thought Mojeek could be my solution was that it can make use of Qwant and Ecosia and others, a metasearch.
I’ll keep experimenting; also trying out Mwmbl and Good-Search.