interesting paper by Brave search team:
"GOGGLES: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web" https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf
Brave Search beta
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Re: Brave Search beta
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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...
Even semi-independant seems generous. I probably would have just lumped them in with Google or Bing.
Some queries do actually return independent results, but the vast majority (in my experience) do not.
Re: Brave Search beta
#173Previous 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...
> I just don't want them advertising to me, or selling my data.
You can get pretty close to that by buying YT Premium [if you watch YouTube] and using an adblocker everywhere else, and this gives Google the non-ad-based monetary incentive to profile your viewing habits to show you more videos it thinks you'll like without optimizing for Ads.
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#174I 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…
"Three times faster than Chrome. Better privacy by default than Firefox. Uses 35% less battery on mobile."
If we're trusting the lies they dump onto the website, that should make Safari the fastest browser! /s
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks to me that that is currently broken due to https://search.brave.com/auth/assets/opensearch.xml redirecting to https://search.brave.com/ . I haven't managed it on Firefox yet
Edit: Try now, fix is out. we are working on pushing a fix out shortly. Stay tuned.
Sorted! Thanks!
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm wondering how this censoring process you envision actually played out at Google. Like did an executive tell an underling to hide this information from the world? I'm genuinely curious.
Do you believe that Google doesn't engage in censoring search results? Do you know that YouTube was taking down the video of said incident yesterday and continues to do so today? https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/09/google-quietly-esc...
Breitbart is not news, it's white nationalist facist garbage. If you think anything on that site is reliable, please go get educated. You providing "evidence" from there is embarrassing.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm wondering how this censoring process you envision actually played out at Google. Like did an executive tell an underling to hide this information from the world? I'm genuinely curious.
Do you believe that Google doesn't engage in censoring search results? Do you know that YouTube was taking down the video of said incident yesterday and continues to do so today? https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/09/google-quietly-esc...
Hiding a news story like this specific example? No, I do not believe Google did that. Not for a second. That is absurd.
How they handle possible spammers, people posting dangerous medical advice, etc is a bit different, no? I'm not letting them off the hook entirely, but this example is simply ridiculous. What benefit would they get from it, and at what risk? (i.e. disgruntled employee blows the whistle on their behavior)
And really, Breitbart? Omg.
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#178Re: Brave Search beta
#179I’ve been using it. Seems like a solid search engine. Interestingly, Google appeared to be censoring results yesterday to hide reports about an unfortunate shooting at a Juneteenth event in Oakland and a subsequent situation where a crowd of people were blocking an ambulance from exiting the area of the shooting with wounded victims. Let’s just say the story didn’t play well to Google’s political base… so they hid it…
I can find that story on google just fine. Please take your right-wing conspiracies back to 4chan bud.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What special thing do they offer that people actually want? I tried every browser and was a long term chrome user. I tried brave and was immediately sold. I use(d) chrome/chromium (and recently used vivaldi) on 3 different plattforms. Brave is noticeable faster on every one. I use it for like 3 month now and never looked back. Its a very pleasant experience for me.
> Brave is noticeable faster on every one This is interesting, because in my experience Ungoogled Chromium/Vivaldi feels much snappier than Brave across my computers. Especially on older devices (like my trusty X201), Brave starts to really chug when I open more than 4 or 5 tabs.
When you notice Brave slowing down, check › More Tools › Task Manager in the browser to see which process(es) in particular are responsible. We're always happy to chat about how we can improve. Thanks!