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

Post by rjh29 » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 7:54 AM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #355

rjh29 wrote: post #249

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If your hotel double books you, they're out of rooms and can't help. If Booking.com double books you, they can pull strings to give you a different room in any hotel on their site (and they do). I don't doubt you had that experience personally, but it doesn't match my experience at all, and I spend 1/3 of my life in hotels.

Well a hotel has never double booked me. A hotel in India however of Taj group (business class) took me to a much better class which was not from their group/chain in a Mercedes and put me up there for the same duration and added full meal plan from their side because my room had some problems and they were fully booked. And booking.com? Heaven’s sake! Where do you even want me to start! First of all I can’t contact…

Post by kolinko » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 7:57 AM UTC

lmm wrote: post #221

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…

> (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 Booking, Travelocity, Expedia, etc., it's somewhere between hard and hopeless.) That's utterly backwards IME. On Booking.com, most modifications are the push of a button (that, crucially, is right there in the UI that I already kn…

Post by factormeta » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 8:14 AM UTC

JenrHywy wrote: post #314

pachico wrote: post #4

Just 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.

I really like Brave, and use it on mobile, but container tabs is still the killer Firefox feature for me on desktop. Hopefully one day Brave will get the equivalent.

Post by jb1991 » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 8:32 AM UTC

lmm wrote: post #307

jb1991 wrote: post #284

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tangential, but booking.com is an unscrupulous company, no one should use them on moral grounds

If there were an alternative that didn't suck, I'd look at it. But 95% of first-party hotel websites suck massively. So what's the option? AirBNB is far worse than booking.com in the moral stakes. I guess picking one of the big hotel chains and going with them might work for some people, but no one chain has good enough coverage IME.

Post by reitanqild » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 8:43 AM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #340

kragen wrote: post #217

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Does this mean you have more engineers working on it now? That was my reading of the grandparent comment's implications. BTW, thank you very much for offering this service, even though I don't use it often.

No I'm still solo developing. Would having a few more people working on it make stuff move faster? Undeniably. But I don't think lack of manpower is an obstacle at the moment in the same lack of hardware. It's reasonable to expect there's an upper limit to how big a project you can manage as a single developer, but I don't think I'm there yet.