Mojeek member here. We have always had a high level of spam bots; as any search engine/service will have. It's a constant battle to fend off new bots; folks can always use try out our API rather than freeloading, and some do. Many obviously do not. We are taking a look at whether things have also changed for us since mid-April 2022.
Some evidence of an uptick here too. Historically it has been ~80%. 6 days ago we had to block 92%. Yesterday we blocked around three times that number of bot searches.
edit: the three times spike yesterday was one particular new attacker; general recent rise holds.
