I know brave is basically chrome but i am very pleased with the experience. Works a charm on linux and is good enough at blocking ads that i dont really need pihole. The only thing i miss is syncing between devices, i mess that up and cant get it right. All in all is quite good.
Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
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Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that not the same as what I wrote?
Rereading it I think it’s ambiguous, and I definitely didn’t read what you intended (after clarification). The problem is that the phrase “I assume there is less probability of errors” is not attached to a condition. It’s a bit like that revolving ballerina dancer illusion
I see, but I was thinking the “Also” at the beginning of the second sentence attaches the conditions of the first sentence. So the second sentence could also be understood to start with “I always buy directly from the hotel…”
Nevertheless, there is clearly a more clear way I could have wrote that comment.
Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#133Read 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
If you turn on "the Web Discovery Project" in the Brave browser, then a fraction of the web addresses you visit will be sent to Brave, even if the web pages weren't from a Brave Search SERP. Source: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh... > If you opt-in to the Web Discovery Project, your browser will process the following data on your device, and securely send it to Brave’s servers: > - A fra…
> then a fraction of the web addresses you visit will be sent to Brave
I get that but if it's a new site, the number of people visiting will be extremely small if not non-existent. The possibilities that I see are
a) The new website is first noted on something like social media and you found it from there and then accessed it via Brave browser
b) You use Google search or Bing within Brave browser and you find the site (because it was submitted to Google or Bing)
Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#134OK, I'll have to give Brave search a try now!
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I do this as well. The fewer middlemen between me and the product or service I want, the better.
Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have yet to find an occasion where directly booking a hotel would give a better or even the same price as booking through booking and the likes.
All the big hotel chains will usually give ~5% off for reserving directly since they pay ~15% to OTAs. They will require you to be a “rewards member”, but that is just checking a box since you already have to give them your personal information.
> They will require you to be a “rewards member”, but that is just checking a box since you already have to give them your personal information.
I became a "rewards member" with a major hotel chain once. Never again. The deluge of spam I got was intolerable.
Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#137Just 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.
My experience has been the opposite. I wish Brave was more like Firefox. I have Brave installed as an alternate browser (originally because sites like Twitch and Netflix performed poorly on Firefox, not so much the case anymore). And there's a noticeable lag when switching tabs that's absent in Firefox. And the memory usage - Brave uses as much memory with 10 tabs open as Firefox does with 100. It seems like "unloade…
You can always check the internal task manager to see which tabs/extensions/child-processes are using the most resources. To do so, visit › More Tools › Task Manager in the browser, or press Shift+Esc.
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#138I actually find their Goggles [0] feature really interesting. [0] https://search.brave.com/help/goggles
"Goggles enable any individual—or community of people—to alter the ranking of Brave Search by using a set of instructions (rules and filters). Anyone can create, apply, or extend a Goggle. Essentially Goggles act as a custom re-ranking on top of the Brave search index."
Wow.
Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#139Just 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.
Well the guy who started Brave used to head up Firefox before the employees revolted and demanded he be fired over politics.
Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
#140Just 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…
Interesting, my test of a search engine’s ability to return relevant results is usually some sort of obscure search for tech help like;
“Best way to modify the xyz on a raspberry pi 4”
I stopped using DuckDuckGo because it always failed at searches like this compared to Google. Brave was ok