• Nighed@sffa.community
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    9 months ago

    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?

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months ago

        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.

        to opt out, pm me ‘optout’. article | about