Also reported here: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/03/brave_cuts_ties_with_...
Brave Search launches own image and video search
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Re: Brave Search launches own image and video search
#12No mention of reverse image search sadly. I've been looking for anything better than Google/yandex forever.
Hi, I'm David and I've worked along other engineers at Brave on this! Thanks for your feedback, it would certainly be a nice addition, although we may want to focus a bit more on quality first. Thanks!
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does being "woke" or "based" mean when it comes to concrete issues you have using their products?
In this context... well, bing hiding the tiananmen square protests (mentioned in the article) or google returning a list of exclusively black people when you searched for "american inventors" are two incidents that come to mind.
> google returning a list of exclusively black people when you searched for "american inventors"
There's no way that's intentional. For starters, DuckDuckGo, Google and Brave image search all do the same thing here.
Maybe it's some weirdness involving "american inventors" appearing in the phrase "african american inventors" or something.
Re: Brave Search launches own image and video search
#14I'm very glad for this! I've been using Brave search almost since it launched, and the standard results have gotten great, but it's always been a bummer to have to go out to Bing/Google for images/video. It's really nice having an alternative that isn't just wrapper around someone else's search index.
Same here. Much like Firefox, I think it's important to use a search index that isn't tied to the larger players (Bing and Google in this case). I tried Brave a couple of months ago[1], I found the results better than Bing, but without image search it wasn't usable. Now I can give it another go.
Re: Brave Search launches own image and video search
#15No mention of reverse image search sadly. I've been looking for anything better than Google/yandex forever.
Bing has its own and it's not bad. Usually google+tineye+bing+yandex will yield some useful results
In the last few months Bing has been much more reliable for me at reverse finding original sources of cover album images that have been posted on Discogs. Google seems to not give me images that have been posted a long time ago (10+ years maybe), but Bing still does.
Re: Brave Search launches own image and video search
#16When will Brave Search launch a crawler update that lets me specifically block its crawler in robots.txt like every other search engine supports?
I see they say "if a domain or page is not crawlable by any search engine (it has a noindex tag), or if it is not crawlable by googlebot, then Brave Search’s bot will not crawl it either." 1: https://brave.com/search/api/
What if I want googlebot to crawl it but not bravebot? Every other search engine lets me block its crawler specifically. Only Brave has this shady policy.
Re: Brave Search launches own image and video search
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this context... well, bing hiding the tiananmen square protests (mentioned in the article) or google returning a list of exclusively black people when you searched for "american inventors" are two incidents that come to mind.
Bing hiding "tank man" is not "woke" by any common definition of the term. Got a reference on the Google incident? Sounds like misinformation.
There are a few references online if you search for '"american inventors" "google"' or something. For obvious reasons it was never covered in any tech blog.
https://twitter.com/Micki_Harbour/status/894871335104630784
https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/88a5hv/is_somethi...
Re: Brave Search launches own image and video search
#18My priority for search is that it’s free of political censorship and weighting. Google is abysmal on this issue, then we had the DDG CEO on here making excuses for his very clear statements about Russian news sources. I don’t need or want anyone else to decide for me what qualifies as “misinformation” I will decide that for myself.
It surprisingly comes up for image searching. Google for example has been known to censor images of Tiananmen Square.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see they say "if a domain or page is not crawlable by any search engine (it has a noindex tag), or if it is not crawlable by googlebot, then Brave Search’s bot will not crawl it either." 1: https://brave.com/search/api/
What if I want googlebot to crawl it but not bravebot? Every other search engine lets me block its crawler specifically. Only Brave has this shady policy.
Hmm, I agree it's odd, but 'shady' seems to attribute malice to what could just be stupidity?