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Loving Brave search so far, but I am wondering if there is a way to manually add sites to the index? Adding them to the Google index and hoping for Brave to pick them up doesn't seem like a clean solution.
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As I said in my other comment[1], you might be interested in using !sp which gives you the same results without Google tracking [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598042
Startpage is owned by an adtech company now.
How does Brave plan to handle relations with law enforcement and their requests? Will Brave offer a mechanism to uniquely identify the most offensive users?
Not sure what you're referring to here; Brave doesn't have any user data. We don't collect it to begin with. We believe in Can't be Evil over Don't be Evil .
I really like that they are pulling SO answers into their results: https://search.brave.com/search?q=strpos+php
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.
DDG just uses Bing results. This solution is completely independent. You may ask why that's needed, just recently DDG was censoring the "tank man" photo on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square because Bing was censoring it. This new indexer is very much welcome and I hope it stays free of censorship from the CCP, marxists, and others.
It is not. It is Cliqz tailcat plus Bing. Censorship from Bing will end up at brave too.
Previous 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…
Brave is just a "pop-privacy" company. I will skip this one...
I wish them luck. More competition in search is welcome. I don't think I will use it very often though because accuracy in search results trumps any concern I have with privacy online that I get from using google or bing.
part of the accuracy comes from google knowing who you are and what you typically search for.
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In December '19 the company that would end up being acquired by Brave did a number of blog posts [0] where they explained the tech. The short answer is 'a lot of word2vec'. [0] https://www.0x65.dev/
why is Brave calling them Tailcat? The company was Cliqz, not Tailcat.