Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

Post by jahsome » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #37

GCA10 wrote: post #26

Just started testing Brave Search, and it scored a rare 100 on the first test: If you type in the name of a favorite boutique hotel, will you get that hotel's true website -- or the usual hairball of third-party intermediaries? (For anyone who's ever tried to modify a reservation, the difference is astonishing. If you're booked with the hotel, all kinds of adjustments are at least possible. If you're booked with Book…

Google usually does through the maps place card . To update that card, the hotel manager has to receive a postcard posted by google. Obviously expedia etc can't easily do that.

Post by mempko » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 6:51 PM UTC

doodlesdev wrote: post #50

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Post by Spivak » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 6:53 PM UTC

burkaman wrote: post #46

mintplant wrote: post #40

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Fails my personal benchmark, unfortunately: haskell megaparsec operators -> should return [0] somewhere high in the result set. Found it on the third page of Brave Search. For comparison, it's the very first result on Google, second page for Bing, and the third page for DuckDuckGo. Sure, it's a bit obscure, and I don't even write that much Haskell these days. But it's calibrated to determine whether I can rely on the…

That's the first result on Kagi, but I think that's because they just call Google behind the scenes for you. Edit: I didn't mean this to be an insult, I pay for Kagi and use it exclusively. But actually, the Kagi and Google first page of results look fairly different for this query, so Kagi is doing more curation and ordering than I realized.

Post by gretch » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 6:57 PM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #38

thrdbndndn wrote: post #36

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Huh, interesting idea. I personally deliberately book though Booking and alike because it's so nice to have everything hotel related in one place especially when having long trips.

I always buy directly from the hotel assuming that I will be treated better due to the hotel earning more money from me due to not having to pay commission to a travel agent. Also, I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel.

Post by lotsofpulp » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 6:57 PM UTC

gretch wrote: post #58

lotsofpulp wrote: post #38

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I always buy directly from the hotel assuming that I will be treated better due to the hotel earning more money from me due to not having to pay commission to a travel agent. Also, I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel.

> I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel My intuition says the opposite. More moving pieces in the system, more fragility in integration of different systems.