I have a question regarding searching using Mojeek vs other search engines.
I recently saw this toot by Mojeek:
It states that Mojeek is a lexical search engine and not a semantic one. So Mojeek searches for explicit matches of words instead of trying to interpret the search prompt. From my understanding of other search engines, this would mean that all major search engines (Google, Bing, Brave) are semantic, right?
A lot of SEO marketeers use the Google guidelines to optimize their web pages (because Google is the largest search engine). These guidelines are written for semantic search. For instance: The subject of your page should be used as keyword enough in your pageâs content, but you should also use synonyms. That obviously means that a lot of websites are optimized for semantic search. With that in mind, would those web pages score as high in Mojeek as in other search engines? Transactional search doesnât seem to work as well as in other search engines, in my experience. Hereâs an article from ahrefs about search intent, for reference: What is Search Intent? A Complete Guide for Beginners
Do you have tips for webmasters to optimize for Mojeek? Would web content be completely different when it would be optimized for lexical search? Iâm thinking that we might see keyword stuffing, or does Mojeek have systems in place to discourage this? Or would you not want webmasters and marketeers to optimize web pages for Mojeek because it would influence the search results?
Do you also have tips for people to better find what theyâre looking for using Mojeek?