Privacy should be a big deal everywhere!
What's the tradeoff? Google gives you better results and it trucks you which let them offer you better ads and better (customized and contextualized) searh results. It's a win, wind and win situation.That's the eternal tradeoff, huh.
Free, good search, but they track you. (Google)
Free, not so good search, but at least it's private. (DDG, Bing, Brave)
And there might be a third option where you pay Brave to not get ads. Unclear if the results get better if you pay.
I can't see that model being sustainable, though.
Chrome does.
90% of browsers are re-skinned Chrome now except for Firefox.
I hope you're joking about the trade off.
Hey guys... I'm getting the feeling that if you want privacy... you need to stay off the ****ing internet...
And so will be windows 11 Yep so will be windows 11. Microsoft will not remove that stuff.Well putting the privacy and tracking issue if Brave search away. I want to know is Brave search going to be similar to Bing search or Google?
It doesn’t matter, just like that a Wikipedia co-founder wanted to defeat Wikipedia.
So what does that mean to anyone?
Google would certainly like you to believe that, but it’s hardly true. No experience here with daily usage of Firefox.
That has nothing to do with anything, and is partially inaccurate anyway. Google chrome itself is based upon chromium, as are others including Brave.
DuckDuckGo is a very awful search engine and it can't find anything. Don't understand why people worship it.
Well I submitted my website to www.bravesearch.com and it is not listing 90% of my pages for some reason (and looks absolute gash)
Brave, the browser which has gained momentum and popularity in recent years, is taking another leap forward in its quest to offer users a more private and secure internet experience. Starting today, Brave browser users will have access to Brave Search in beta, a completely new search engine that offers "unmatched privacy."
Brave Search was announced last March, and since its announcement, it's been tested by more than 100,000 users. Brave, which prides itself on being a "browser reimagined," recently surpassed 32 million monthly active users and is hoping that Brave Search will further its role in the browser market.
Brave Search beta is available to all Brave browser users on iOS, Android, and desktop starting today. At first, users will need to manually select Brave Search as their search engine option, alongside other choices such as Google and Bing. However, Brave Search will become the default and standard search engine for the Brave browser later this year.
Unlike Google and others, Brave Search doesn't track users, their searches, or clicks. Instead, Brave Search "puts users first, and fully in control of their online experience." The "completely independent" search engine also promises full transparency, with "no secret methods or algorithms for bias results," and soon will roll out "community-curated open ranking models to ensure diversity and prevent algorithmic biases" and censorship.
Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave, says the new search engine is the "real alternative" to Big Tech, such as Google, and that it offers a new way for users to securely and privately browse the web without the worry of their privacy.One major upside for users using Brave Search, currently still in beta, is its ad-free experience. When the search engine exits beta, Brave is pledging to offer users options for an ad-free search experience and an "ad-supported free" experience later. The company also said it would "explore bringing private ads with BAT revenue share to search," as it's done for Brave Browser users.
Brave relies on its own index for the web, rather than relying on Google Search and Microsoft's Bing. To do this, Brave is relying on "anonymized contributions from the community to improve and refine results."At launch, Brave's index will still struggle to meet the levels of Google and others with search queries such as image search. Until Brave's index can expand, it will rely on using third-party APIs. Brave Search is also introducing an "independence metric" that will inform users on the independence of their search results to ensure no bias in the index or algorithm. Brave Search in beta is available starting today for Brave browsers on iOS, Android, and the desktop. It will also be available to non-Brave browser users at search.brave.com
Article Link: Brave Search Now Available in Beta as Privacy-Protecting Search Engine Alternative to Google
The situation is becoming worse now. Results are corrupted by content farms, and valuable user contents are locked inside the social networking services/apps.
It's going to be similar to Google. It pulls Google results "anonymously".
Well the simple fact that Google is giving Mozilla truckloads of money to keep Google as the default search engine is annoying. Firefox can at least be tweaked a LOT however you want. It's not private out of the box, but it can be made to be more than any other browser.
I never thought I'd say this, but Google is now the worst search engine. I find that DuckDuckGo and even Bing give better search results now. Google flat out doesn't show articles it thinks you shouldn't see. Bing censors results too now, just not to the extent of Google. Microsoft was censoring searches in China of Tiananmen Square, which is really messed up. They said it was an "accident" they were doing this in China, which is nonsense.So Duckduckgo will use Google search and pull it from Google but Google will not see the user IP address but Duckduckgo?
There are two searches an index search and search crawler well that how it was. Yahoo was index search and Google started of as crawler.
So if you typed in search box and say Brave privacy controversy or is Brave safe. How it would work is if Yahoo had index it only than it would show it.Well Google would look at the word string and crawl the internet and using things like say boolean search would show it.
So google would show geocities, blogs, yahoo clubs, yahoo answers , chat rooms and message boards anything using search string.
Than around 10 years ago the company started to deemphasizes boolean search and older searches and its AI looks at the data and filter out old posts on the internet, message boards and posting. Where what Google now wants to show you new stuff and websites from journalists.
The company Google also started deemphasizes showing conspiracy stuff saying searching say example is the vaccines safe or clime change. The AI will filter out conspiracy stuff and conservative stuff.
When comes to reddit posts and Quora it is new and Google will show some posts but many will not show up.
When it comes to computer problems it is very important it takes me to a message boards or when I'm searching for say a user opinions or polls.The problem is the AI thinks this is not fact but an opinion and filter this out now.
What the problem is that Google is switching to a more scholar search model now than database search where when Google started. In some cases using boolean search shows even less hits now.
If I search for my user name on Bing and some times Duckduckgo it will show more of my posting than say Google.
It like you got fish in the water and a search engines are throwing big net into the water and some search engines grab this and some grab that. And now Google AI looks and the fish and say may be you want this or this is harmful.
To some companies spend millions of dollars and give competition it will not get better.
But I fear at least if Apple ever got inter that say the businesses of making their own search model it will be base on AI search than database search.
Other thing it is easier to steal pictures of the internet with Duckduckgo where Google image search shows thumbnails now and take you to the website and only there can you view it.
Bing has a much better video search than Google. You can search many youtube videos on Bing and X rated videos with out leaving bing search and going to the website.
The problem is any computer database search is way more better than any AI search.
I show hope Brave does not use AI but go back to using boolean search.
There is a problem here though. These very plugins can aid with fingerprinting. Tweaking as much as is possible is just aiding the whole thing. The best browser security is multiple (millions) of people using the exact same browser with the exact same setting and plugins (of course, all other things being equal; ip hiding etc).
I've tried Brave and it's okay. Someone at work was enthusiastic about Coinbase and other crypto currency, so I tried it for a while. I prefer Firefox with DuckDuckGo, although the Malwarebytes extension helps Chrome and others.
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The article says that Brave is using their own search index that they're building up.
Brave themselves have stated during the beta that they are pulling results from Google anonymously when their search engine doesn't have enough results. It's a temporary solution as they build up their search index.Speculation Over an Apple Search Engine Resurfaces, But Apple Likely Remains Focused on Siri and Spotlight
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The article says that Brave is using their own search index that they're building up.
Well it would be interesting to see what Brave and Apple can come up with. And give some competition.
