How 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.
Why assume that's one of DDG's goals?
Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
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#162I have brave search as default but always do a google bang “!g”. I do this for every search but figure I’m giving brave some data on all my searches to help improve it. I guess it’s be better if I clicked a link on their results too for reinforcement learning.
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#163I tried it, and honestly it sucks, all the rankings are terrible, I searched stackoverflow and I got seo spam as one of the top results, the title or meta didn't even include "stackoverflow". I also hate how it's not full width.
Hi, Brave engineer here,
We're always on the look-out to improve our search ranking. Would you be able to share some of the queries you made that did not return satisfying results? (or use in-page feedback to report them automatically to us). It would be very useful.
Thanks!
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
using Brave on an iphone for Youtube is a godsend. Almost as good as desktop experience. Youtube app, Safari and Chrome suck enough to be unusable
Can I ask what’s so good about YT on Brave? I use the iOS app but could change. Does it block ads?
Yes.
If you browse YouTube on mobile via the Brave browser it blocks all YouTube ads.
I haven't used the YouTube app in a year...
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#165They need to add a Maps tab for easy map viewing on searches
Otherwise, I give their index a B+ compared w/ DDG, Bing, and Google
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#166I have brave search as default but always do a google bang “!g”. I do this for every search but figure I’m giving brave some data on all my searches to help improve it. I guess it’s be better if I clicked a link on their results too for reinforcement learning.
Once you’ve doing this, is there a value-add Brave is providing over just using Google through a VPN?
As someone without much familiarity, this alternative seems circuitous if Google results are what you actually want.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Mozilla CEO is to blame for the chaos they caused around Firefox, and them losing market share to Chrome for the past 14 years. Mozilla is so dysfunctional that the CEO is rewarded a massive bonus for running the company to the ground and laying off their employees. They are not interested in competing against Chrome; instead they are chronically dependent on Google's money and on life support, making over 80% of…
How would a nonprofit expect to compete against Google? It's not exactly evenly matched is it? Firefox on desktop has been more than good enough anyway.
Firefox competed against fairly successfully against Microsoft for a decade.
They still spin off massive amounts of cash -- they just piss it away on their foundation, and not improving the product.
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#168Is there search independent? They have no page talking about their robot. The Cliqz index they acquired was a database of query url pairs scraped from Google. It is not obvious how true their claims of independence are or how they are building an index beyond further scraping of Google and opaque Brave browser add-ons
Do you have a citation for this? I can't find any sources to back this claim.
https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-05/a-new-search-engine.html
Kudos if you can find their 2023 crawler in logs....
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, any links to info about that?
https://brave.com/brave-search/ "Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search..."
The same cliqz [0] that got shipped to Germany Firefox users?
[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
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#170Just 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.
"politics" is one way to describe him donating a large sum of money to a bigoted anti-gay cause and losing the trust of his employees.