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Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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> Announcing the Brave Search API

> In continuing our mission to offer alternatives to Big Tech, Brave is planning to release the Brave Search API. Through it, developers and companies will be able to build search experiences that compete on quality with Big Tech. Those interested should stay tuned for more details, or contact us at bizdev@brave.com.

That's going to be very important for search engines like phind which rely on the bing index service.

Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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post #2

> Announcing the Brave Search API > In continuing our mission to offer alternatives to Big Tech, Brave is planning to release the Brave Search API. Through it, developers and companies will be able to build search experiences that compete on quality with Big Tech. Those interested should stay tuned for more details, or contact us at bizdev@brave.com. That's going to be very important for search engines like phind whi…

they have 200 employees on linkedin, many of whom are not engineers. How they can carry two such major and complicated projects(browser and search) with such headcount?

Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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post #2

> Announcing the Brave Search API > In continuing our mission to offer alternatives to Big Tech, Brave is planning to release the Brave Search API. Through it, developers and companies will be able to build search experiences that compete on quality with Big Tech. Those interested should stay tuned for more details, or contact us at bizdev@brave.com. That's going to be very important for search engines like phind whi…

they have 200 employees on linkedin, many of whom are not engineers. How they can carry two such major and complicated projects(browser and search) with such headcount?

Meanwhile, Twitter had 7500 and Dropbox, 3000.

Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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Just the fastest and most ergonomic browser I've tried. I wish Firefox was like Brave, to be honest. Until that happens, I'll stick to Brave for both mobile and desktop.

This submission is about a search engine, not a browser.

What's to be like the Brave browser for you? You don't say much.

Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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Just the fastest and most ergonomic browser I've tried. I wish Firefox was like Brave, to be honest. Until that happens, I'll stick to Brave for both mobile and desktop.

I use both. Brave is better for the "chromium only" wonky websites/webapps. But the whole altruistic privacy thing is kind of undercut, at least optics-wise, by all the crypto/gamification upsell present by default. Not good when your supposedly privacy-focused browser requires extensive fiddling in the settings to shut everything off on initial install a-la Windows 11...

Re: Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index

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I've set Brave Search to be my default search engine for private windows (incognito mode). I've grown annoyed by the cookie consent dialogs and captchas that are presented to me by Google when I open Google's search engine in a private window. Brave Search doesn't have those annoyances.
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