Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

Post by skinkestek » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:12 AM UTC

xapata wrote: post #170

skinkestek wrote: post #129

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Thinking back, yes it is probably true what you write about Python docs, the problem is you easily end up in the wrong docs when searching for something.

I'm not sure why that's happening to you. Perhaps you're being misled by some SEO to click on pages that are sites trying to put advertisements in front of you?

Post by mrtksn » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

BowBun wrote: post #211

mrtksn wrote: post #134

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This time it returned relevant result for me too, I recall getting annoyed by it some time ago so maybe its not relevant example anymore. Anyway, it happens all the time. Goole assumes that I mean something and I need to quote words trying to enforce my query. Pretty much every time when the returned results don't include the words I typed is a frustration for me. It makes it very hard to fix the query because I need…

This seems somewhat natural, at least to me. Imagine you're talking to your friend, and you say the exact same thing you tell Google: "North Korea DHL". They're not going to have any idea what you're talking about (they can guess) - do you want to ship something there? Are you making a comment/observation? A business opportunity? Your friend would probably ask clarifying questions to narrow down what you're talking a…

Post by MrPatan » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:18 AM UTC

arp242 wrote: post #37

sph wrote: post #11

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DDG is awful for spam on most searches which can't be easily resolved with a Wikipedia info box. The 3rd result onward is very fishy, content spammy results of very low quality. It's like their algo isn't good enough to separate the wheat from the chaff yet.

DDG can give downright weird and irrelevant results, and sometimes (rarely) even returning with "noting matched your search". I hate it, but I have to fall back to Google quite often, and the results are consistently better; sometimes much better. I still have DDG as the default because it does work a lot of the time, and because it's easy to turn a search in to a Google search with !g, but I have to admit it's not a…

Post by laputan_machine » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:23 AM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #195

You know what, I welcome a new search provider, even if it's by a cryptocurrency company. I'd rather see Qwant succeed, but their search is having trouble competing with even duckduckgo. What I don't see is where Brave gets its image search results from. After Microsoft blatantly started serving the CCP by blocking queries for "tank man", which as far as I know they've never actually apologised for, just explained it…

Post by schmorptron » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC

judge2020 wrote: post #58

hiyer wrote: post #35

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True. If you search for any Python documentation the first links on Google are almost always geeksforgeeks, w3schools, etc instead of the official Python docs.

I think this is telling of how often the python docs actually solve peoples’ questions. For example, I searched “python string replace”, with the first 4 being tutorialpoint, w3schools, geeksforgeeks, stack overflow and at position 8 is the python docs. The issue with the python docs for this search is that it takes me to “built-in types”, and starts off with things totally irrelevant to what I want. I now have to go…