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I’ve been using brave search since their early days. They used to suck, but I pushed my feelings aside and just kept trying. Now, brave out performs google on a lot of search results. Sometimes, you have to add a bit more context to your query, but it is worth staying private and not dealing with all the SEO garbage. If the results don’t fit your need, just leave feedback and it will probably be addressed soon.
You were downvoted - presumably by people that don't like some of the things Brave does but surely they don't think Google isnt far, far worse.
Personally, I use Kagi, but still.
lol. Everyone has the right to their own opinion. It is funny how search engines have become much like sports teams where people are very strong in their usage and opinions of one over the other. I will have to look into Kagi. I considered running my own searx instance on a raspberry pi, but have yet to try it out.
What are the pros/cons of brave (what is it even)? Are they actually a search engine, or just re-skinning Bing or something like DDG does?
According to it's Wikipedia entry, it's a genuinely separate index.
I did not know that. Damn. It's a small index, sure (so you might not get very many results for some queries) but they say they do that to avoid spam on it.
That might be a trade-off that is necessary in the future. Such a huge portion of the web has become crap that trying to index the entire web naturally makes the index you build crap, too.
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Brave Search is a search engine developed by Brave Software, Inc. , which is set as the default search engine for Brave web browser users in certain countries.
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