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

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Post by kragen »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #374
reitanqild wrote: post #369

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I really wish there was someone reading this who could donate some hardware. I would love to but I am not in a position to do it, at least not right now.

I view it as a long march. Right now I've got about two years runway, which isn't a lot but it also isn't nothing. Considering the project had barely started two years ago, and considering the opportunities it's already created, hopefully more options will make themselves available along the way somehow.

hopefully not the kind where you lose 90% of your forces, many to desertion and others to fighting with ethnic warlords, before finally defeating the encirclement campaign

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

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

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…

Beyond that, boutique hotels are often substantially more expensive when you book directly. Which is weird, because you think it would be cheaper since they’re not paying the affiliate booking fees. But no, even if you call them directly or show up in person they generally refuse to match Expedia or booking.com. I am being overly general here, I’m sure there are exceptions, but this has been my experience repeatedly.

With restaurants I try to not use aggregators like doordash or Uber Eats and always make sure to call and order directly so they save on fees. But hotels seem like they would rather pay the fee rather than give a real customer the best available price and keep a larger portion of the profit.

There are many things I hate about Booking.com, but at least they do generally give the best price.

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

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Post by JenrHywy »

factormeta wrote: post #365
JenrHywy wrote: post #314

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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.

just make new profiles

For every tab I open? Nah

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Post by rarafael »

artificial wrote: post #27
TigeriusKirk wrote: post #16

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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.

Have you tried Yandex for image search? It supports searching by specific sizes like the Google search of yore.

Yandex image search is irrationally good, I've yet to find an image search engine that works as well as it does. I have no idea why

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Post by GCA10 »

classified wrote: post #316
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.

So funny how this thread got nerd-sniped from Brave search to hotel booking.

As the guy who started the thread, I'm just glad to have provided an (accidental) portal into a whole new subdomain of HN community expertise.

We've ended up with the perfect mix of helpful insights, provocative theories, well-documented personal experiences (sample of one) -- and brief snark that gets reined in before it gets ugly.

Later on this year, I'll offer some thoughts about hotel bookings that can be nerd-sniped the other way -- into a discussion of Brave search

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

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Post by wkat4242 »

kashkhan wrote: post #75
nextmove wrote: post #67

I love how on mobile Brave browser you can add YouTube videos to your Brave playlist and then play them while your screen is locked. Also I switched from StartPage to Brave search, but I do wish Brave search had a translator feature. Like on StartPage I just search "translate" and get an input box. I find it better than most other browsers' translators.

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

If you're on Android NewPipe is also amazing, especially the sponsorblock fork which the original devs unfortunately refuse to integrate.

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

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Post by PaulHoule »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #243
lmm wrote: post #221

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> (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…

Not true. But I won’t discuss that. Here’s something else — the most critical part of a booking — the booking itself. Go talk to third party aggregator chat bot when you realise you don’t even have a booking that you booked. 4-5 days later if you’re lucky you’ll receive an apology email if you’re lucky, which mentions that they do not want you have that experience and they’ve send it for feedback to the relevant team…

I can say overall I've had OK experiences with aggregators, but my style of tourism lately has been motortourism with partially determined plans so I often book rooms a day or two ahead.

I agree though with the sentiment of a post up in the hierarchy that it's a problem that middlemen dominate the listings for hotels, restaurants and such.

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

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Post by PaulHoule »

afavour wrote: post #414
lotsofpulp wrote: post #376

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Having to walk a guest when the hotel cannot meet the terms of the reservation is part of the contract between the big hotel brands and franchisors. If the hotel operators do not fulfill the walk policy, then you should contact the 800 number for Marriott/Hilton/IHG/Choice/Wyndham/etc and they will mail you a check for your expenses and bill the hotel owner.

This thread started about “boutique hotels” and now we’re talking about franchisees of major national chains. They’re not the same. Plenty of tiny unfranchised operations can you leave you hanging with little to no recourse.

I've heard "boutique hotel" applied to places like Aloft that are owned by big chains.
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