In really hope this improves. I firmly believe the web needs an independent index besides Google and MS. But the first two searches I made sadly returned subpar results. So I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Brave Search beta
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Re: Brave Search beta
#122Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328758 If things go as planned, this may become a paid, ad-free, zero-tracking search engine. I can't express how exciting this is to me. Over the past few years, I have made several attempts to replace Google Search with DuckDuckGo. But they have all failed and I always ended up changing the default search engine back to Google. I mean, DDG worked f…
They will definitely implement ads. They're an advertising company.
"options for ad-free paid search and ad-supported search"
Re: Brave Search beta
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're referring to Fallback Mixing , which is off by default. You have to enable it in https://search.brave.com/settings . When enabled, this feature will (at times) pull in results from Google via an anonymous query, routed through the browser. Read more about it here: https://search.brave.com/help/google-fallback
This has not been my experience. Comparing results with Google, Startpage, and a Searx instance with only Google enabled reveals that the results are almost always from Google. Sometimes they merge multiple results that share a domain. I decided to add them to the "Semi-Independent" category of my collection of indexing search engines: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
Brave Search doesn't fall-back to Google; not unless you have enabled Fallback Mixing in https://search.brave.com/settings/. Brave Search has its own index; the results may resemble those of other engines at times, but they aren't pulled from those engines (again, noting the exception of Fallback Mixing, an optional feature offered to the user via Settings).
Re: Brave Search beta
#124Brave browser on android doesn't let me set it as default search yet. Maybe I need an update.
Same here. Latest version. Kinda ironic.
Re: Brave Search beta
#125I really don't understand Brave. What special thing do they offer that people actually want? The main concrete selling point seems to built-in ad blockers, but we've had that for ages in every other browser. They have some crypto stuff going on, I'll be honest, I don't understand it, because I don't care, I just want to browse the web. That should be possible without a blockchain. They claim performance is better, bu…
I use brave on mobile. Because they seem to be the only stable Browser that offers bottom UI (tabs and new tab button in a bottom menu bar). I don't know how people use >6" phone screens with navigation all on top and I have hands the size of dessert plates!
Re: Brave Search beta
#126Not sure if it's the hug of death, but this search generates a 500: https://search.brave.com/search?q=Spring+Boot
Fixed now! Not a hug of death (yet).
Re: Brave Search beta
#127I think they copied DuckDuckGo's bangs. It's nowhere in the documentation, and the UI never indicates it, but bang searches (like `!stackoverflow parse html with regex`) work in Brave Search exactly as they do in DuckDuckGo. Preliminary testing of mine suggests that they just copied DuckDuckGo's list directly–I tried a few obscure ones from DDG, like `!ldss` or `!uib`, and they work in Brave Search. @w0ts0n any detai…
We support many shebangs, with more to come in the future. For now, this is what is offered:
!i - Search Images
!n - Search News
!a - Amazon
!b - Bing
!d - DuckDuckGo
!e - eBay
!g - Google
!p - Pinterest
!r - Reddit
!s - StartPage
!w - Wikipedia
!li - LinkedIn
!gh - GitHub
!gm - Google Maps
!so - Stack Overflow
!tw - Twitter
!yt - YouTube
!wa - Wolfram Alpha
!mj - Mojeek
!osm - Open Street Map
!mdn - Mozilla Developer Network
Re: Brave Search beta
#128Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26328758 If things go as planned, this may become a paid, ad-free, zero-tracking search engine. I can't express how exciting this is to me. Over the past few years, I have made several attempts to replace Google Search with DuckDuckGo. But they have all failed and I always ended up changing the default search engine back to Google. I mean, DDG worked f…
Same excitement here. I'd love to see anyone(Brave or others) chip away at my Google dependencies, even if they charge me for them. I already love Brave as a browser, so here's hoping search pans out.
I don't mind a company profiling me. A lot of Google's cross interacting products work great(Gmail to Calendar and Maps, for example). I just don't want them advertising to me, or selling my data. A guy can dream...
Re: Brave Search beta
#129I really don't understand Brave. What special thing do they offer that people actually want? The main concrete selling point seems to built-in ad blockers, but we've had that for ages in every other browser. They have some crypto stuff going on, I'll be honest, I don't understand it, because I don't care, I just want to browse the web. That should be possible without a blockchain. They claim performance is better, bu…
People want a browser with an ad-blocker, and are too lazy to configure it themselves. Brave adds it and starts some "tell your friends" marketing hype. The rest writes itself.
> People want a browser with an ad-blocker, and are too lazy to configure it themselves.
It's always shocked me, but this really is the case.
I make a habit to install an adblocker (if they consent) whenever using a friend's computer, and have had many thank me for doing so a week later, saying what a huge difference it is - but none had thought it was worth the "effort" before.
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Re: Brave Search beta
#130compare search results for "lab leak" https://search.brave.com/search?q=lab+leak https://www.google.com/search?q=lab+leak https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lab+leak https://www.bing.com/search?q=lab+leak
What am I supposed to see? All engines give the same or very similar results for me
At least for me I saw that the search results for google were similar to brave while those for duckduckgo were similar to those from bing.