>Basically all 'independent' search engines piggyback off Google or Bing

Incorrect: https://www.mojeek.com/about/why-mojeek

also brave: https://brave.com/search/#independent

weird, I've never heard of mojeek before and this is the 2nd comment in this thread I've seen mentioning it.

As of the time of writing there are 8 search matches in this thread: 1 from you, the rest from Colin (CEO of said company).

Spam is fine by me if it's from the CEOs personal account, lol. Clearly I wasn't familiar with the product so it's a helpful comment for me

> the rest from Colin (CEO of said company)

I assumed he had financial connection to them, but didn't want to take the time to research it. Mojeek is the new fetch.