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Why wouldn't it be? Google scrapes the web to populate it's results, why wouldn't other search engines scrape the web as well? Google is a website.
Because Google's robots.txt disallows it, and those websites allow it.
Not that they’re required to do so and more choice can be good, but why didn’t they work with DDG? I see they’ve gone ahead and stolen the bangs (!w) feature for themselves.
it failed my first test of returning stackoverflow for a code error https://search.brave.com/search?q=null+pointer+exception
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> I mean, DDG worked fine for 95% of time, but the remaining 5% failure often led to some extreme frustration that I just couldn't stand. Is 95% really not acceptable?My experience is quite different though. When I don’t get the results I hoped I just use !g. Easy. But the result are rarely any better
After using the duck for a couple of years, I have become better at two things: - Reading man pages or official documentation sites before opening a search engine - Thinking of more precise search keywords, as I got used to duck not helping me as much as google
Now I just prefix my query with !py and I’m immediately taken to the docs.
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"If a publisher has not verified ownership, then a user’s contributions will be held in reserve inside the browser for 90 days. [...] At the end of the 90 day period, any contributions marked for unverified publishers will be released back to the wallet. No funds leave the browser except to go to verified creators." https://brave.com/faq-rewards/#unclaimed-funds
Case in point.
So thankfully the tech is solid. Now just UX polishing and onboarding.
Personally, I think you're just being obtuse and looking for a problem.
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@dang, go fuck yourself, seriously.
Until this edit I haven't said anything offensive. I've simply been a contrarian for many topics: technical, social, political, agricultural, philosophical. It seems you don't want a Socrates? Too bad.
I can't help you allow these topics and other commenters post their opinions and I have opposing opinions. I'm always as respectful as the person I'm responding to is.
I also don't bring the topics up in the first place, yet you target my response for bring a flamewar? Why not the post I was responding to with the opposing opinion?
How is "got it" more offensive than "Case in point." How is pointing out GP's actions offensive? Care to point out exactly what you found so offensive?
Again, go fuck yourself. You know what you're doing.
Censorship isn't cool. Your Marxist, CCP dick-sucking side won't win.
Go let China bend you and YCombinator over some more.
That's offensive, true but offensive, until now I haven't posted anything offensive.
Great moderating job dumbfuck.
Based on the principles in the blog post alone ( https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/ ), this will obviously be my new default search until it's proven sufficiently unusable. DDG's usability has always been a bit of a problem for me, it feels more like a perl wrapper over some search bookmarks than an engine in its own right. Will give this one a go for a while, there is literally every reason to try and few reasons…
Seems quite fast, good UX overall. I like that it gives me information like "all results from Brave" so that if they do fall back I know about it. DDG has a 'bang syntax' where I can do things like '!rust' to start searching the rust docs from my url - I like that a lot, I wonder if there's anything similar here or if I could work around that somehow.
Update: We do support !rust as well (and all of DDG's other bangs ). Brave Search supports many shebangs , but I don't believe we've added support for `!rust` yet (we do have `!mdn` and `!so` though). I'll submit a request to add a `!rust` option too!
damn, alright, you got me. I'll try it out as default for a while
There's only 1 page of search results, regardless of the search term. Why?
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I still wouldn't use it since it falls back to Bing or Google.
I just tested an image search on Bing ( https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=test ) and Brave Search ( https://search.brave.com/images?q=test ) and it definitely appears that Brave is falling back to Bing as the results are highly identical, especially compared to Google ( https://www.google.com/search?q=test ).
"However for some features, like searching for images, Brave Search will fetch results from Microsoft Bing."