This is about the Brave Search engine, which you can use in any browser:
Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
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#12Stoked for the independent Search API. Google and Bings are pricey. I anticipate it having a quicker adoption path compared to than the UI.
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#13How is it that Brave managed to build an indexer and remove dependence on Bing in less than two years but DuckDuckGo hasn't been able to do it in a decade.
DDG probably doesn't want to? On the time horizons they're thinking about, it's probably more expensive to develop competitive tech and keep it working than it is to pay for API access.
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#14Read the announcement and it looks like there isn't an option to submit a site for crawling. If that's true, how do they discover new sites? My understanding of the 'the Web Discovery project' is that they're indexing your search and the results you click, anonymously but you won't see new sites in your search results which in turn means the new site won't be indexed by them
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#15How is it that Brave managed to build an indexer and remove dependence on Bing in less than two years but DuckDuckGo hasn't been able to do it in a decade.
The search index is relatively easy, the ad marketplace is hard. DDG is likely hooked on tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in Bing revenue which is a tough habit to kick.
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#16I've set Brave Search to be my default search engine for private windows (incognito mode). I've grown annoyed by the cookie consent dialogs and captchas that are presented to me by Google when I open Google's search engine in a private window. Brave Search doesn't have those annoyances.
It's been my default search for months. I go to Google for images and maps, but Brave search serves most of my needs quite well.
But throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing is my increasing use of Bing Chat. It's not really a general purpose search replacement, but it does do a more efficient job of answering basic questions succinctly.
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#17Brave search is surprisingly good. In the past I've often clicked the "fallback to Google Search" option but these days I rarely do that.
It could be that Brave is getting better, or Google search is getting worse, or both.
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#18How is it that Brave managed to build an indexer and remove dependence on Bing in less than two years but DuckDuckGo hasn't been able to do it in a decade.
They bought the search engine when it went bankrupt.
Still quite a feat and its results are actually better than ddg and bing.
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#19Just the fastest and most ergonomic browser I've tried. I wish Firefox was like Brave, to be honest. Until that happens, I'll stick to Brave for both mobile and desktop.
It is ergonomic until you want to send more than one tab using Brave sync.
Also Ctrl + B to show the bookmarks sidebar would be nice, for those of us who nest their web clippings deeply.
On the iOS app, it also forgets usernames I’ve stored using password sync. For some sites (criteria unclear) I have to type the username before it inserts the password, which is frustrating to a privacy conscious user who will not use the same email address everywhere.
I want to like it but there are power user pleasing areas where it certainly lags behind Firefox.
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