Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
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#2> Brave Search is currently not displaying ads, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported.
Well, there's that. I assume they won't implement ad blocking for that one.
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#3This is mostly common sense, but it'll be really interesting to see the metrics: People choosing to use the Brave browser should presumably trust Brave as their search as well, especially once the crypto ad scheme ties into their search engine too. This might be a case where most people follow along with the switch.
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#4This seems more like trying to capture money. If this was about privacy, they could have just gone with duckduckgo.
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#5Great, now I can accumulate my $.05 worth of monthly BAT a little faster!
Edit: I expected the YC crowd to pick up on Palantir puppets a bit faster. I'll gladly burn karma to get the word out though.
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#6This reminds me to uninstall brave. Rebranded chromium with crypto shilling and now "premium search"? They didn't even test DNS with their tor feature, causing identity leaks.
Can we not just have the chromium builds degoogled and include the codecs and DRM libs? Woolyss builds do all that, but there's no fancy single download installer+auto updater. We need just "chromium".
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#7I’ve been using Brave search for several months now. I switched the day that it was announced. The quality is fairly good, but I’m having troubling telling whether it’s just my own halo effect or if the initial quality that experienced has started to slip a little as it indexes more widely or something. At first I was impressed with how little spam ended up in top results, but lately exact queries for Python functions or prominent API functions have lots of spammy content above the actual documentation. Talking about sites that just republish GitHub issue threads, republished StackOverflow questions, w3schools-likes, etc.
I’m still rooting for them, but in general I continued to be baffled why such blatant spam can consistently make it into top results on Google, DDG and now Brave. I really wish a search engine would empower me to provide a URL ban list that gets applied server-side instead of filtering on the front end (if anything).
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#8Honest question. I have used DuckDuckGo and Brave Search and although they seem to do the job for generic searches they really suck for very specific searches.
How likely is for one of these search engines to catch-up technologically to Google's sophistication? I really can't see a clear trajectory for them to compete with Google's quality.
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#9Great! I've recently mentioned that Brave Search is the only alternative search I've stuck to since day 1. Works much better for me than DDG or any other search has ever did.
Not perfect, rarely returns DE results instead of English, but from my point of view they're doing something good and I'm sold.
But please, give me a way to pay for it. I don't want to be the product, one day.
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