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

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

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Post by Barrin92 »

fleddr wrote: post #218
skinkestek wrote: post #176

I'm actually tempted to start using Brave. I'm still holding out with Firefox despite Mozilla trying very hard to get rid of us (to the point where the thought has struck me more than once if the current CEO of Mozilla is in the pocket of Google). If at some point the last competing mainstream browser engine is gone I'll probably go for Brave and I might start testing it this week.

In the real world, Firefox is already dead and the only real competing browser engine is Webkit/Safari. Firefox's market share is 3.6% and on mobile only 0.5%. On many websites, mobile traffic is now at about 70%. Firefox doesn't even show up in dashboards, and is smaller than various Chromium clones and/or regional browsers.

while the relative decline is definitely bad mind you that is still ~200 million users. The internet's pretty huge. Not so dead you couldn't theoretically at least crawl back from.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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

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Post by micromacrofoot »

jerjerjer wrote: post #326
amelius wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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). The irony is that Google wants all our information "to improve our user experience", except they don't want our ban lists.

pinterest. Bane of all image searches.

seriously, any Googlers around that are close enough to search to know why Pinterest is still dominating image results despite being incredibly low quality? this is a widely known problem.

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

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Post by hairofadog »

jerjerjer wrote: post #326
amelius wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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). The irony is that Google wants all our information "to improve our user experience", except they don't want our ban lists.

pinterest. Bane of all image searches.

yelp, pinterest, w3schools

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

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Post by matheusmoreira »

amelius wrote: post #252
eloisius wrote: post #7

I’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 function…

> 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). The irony is that Google wants all our information "to improve our user experience", except they don't want our ban lists.

They sure want to improve their own user experience. The "use your information to make tons of money" experience.

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

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Post by Im_your_dada »

jerjerjer wrote: post #326
amelius wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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). The irony is that Google wants all our information "to improve our user experience", except they don't want our ban lists.

pinterest. Bane of all image searches.

pinterest the most useless website in the search results

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

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Post by matheusmoreira »

eloisius wrote: post #7

I’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 function…

> I continued to be baffled why such blatant spam can consistently make it into top results

Same here. It's like they don't even care anymore. The results are just there to hold your interest so they can show some keyword ads along with them.

I wish people would start maintaining curated web directories again.

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

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Post by rightbyte »

skymt wrote: post #350
bradleyankrom wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t remember if it was a former feature of Google search or a Chrome extension, but that capability used to be available in Chrome. w3schools was on that list, among other republishers and whatnot. Loved it. Maybe someone else can augment my hazy recollection.

You're probably thinking of "Personal Blocklist", an official Chrome extension developed by Google. It's no longer available. https://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/18/blacklist-google-search-re...

That actually sounds awesome. But the user in control? No wonder Google killed it ...

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

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Post by amelius »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #383
jader201 wrote: post #380

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It’s a bit ridiculous, really. I actually don’t feel the need to ban that many sites. I would probably be happy if I could just ban them. How can one site be so bad?

I don't actually want Google to index as much of the internet as it possibly can. I actually want streamlined indices that are tailored towards thoroughly searching a specific knowledge domain. Edit: I would love, love, love a search engine specifically tailored towards programming questions. One that doesn't treat queries like "C# ?." as me looking for "C#" and getting the most generic results possible.

Yes, instead of Google collecting information about me to improve my search experience, I want:

- A box where I can select the context of my search.

- The box then appends a specific string to the query.

For example, if I set the box to "clothes", the box will append "waist 34 inch, 5 feet tall" to the query.

If I set the box to "programming", the box will append "favorite_languages:Python,C++" to the query.

And of course a search engine should interpret it accordingly. No need to collect and store my personal information.

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

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Post by MiddleEndian »

jerjerjer wrote: post #326
amelius wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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). The irony is that Google wants all our information "to improve our user experience", except they don't want our ban lists.

pinterest. Bane of all image searches.

I use the uBlackList addon in Firefox to block Pinterest results from Google search results with the following regular expression:

    /pinterest\..*/
It also appends "block this site" links to all search results.

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

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Post by nr2x »

hairofadog wrote: post #423
jerjerjer wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pinterest. Bane of all image searches.

yelp, pinterest, w3schools

Prior to mdn w3schools was a decent way to quickly find info on random HTML tags. Not sure why it gets so much hate.
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