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This seems more like trying to capture money. If this was about privacy, they could have just gone with duckduckgo.

eloisius 5y ago
For all the love DDG gets on this site, it’s not really an independent search engine. It relies heavily on the Bing index, despite spinning it as using it as one of many signals. Brave has its own index and that puts it in another class. In my experience the results have been higher quality, too.
- DeathArrow 5y ago
  >Brave has its own index Brave has Brendan Eich and that individual knows a thing or two about what matters in tech.
sholladay 5y ago
Have you spent much time with Brave Search? I use Firefox and currently have DDD as the default search on my laptop, but I often use the !g operator since the DDD results are routinely not as good as Google. I’ve had a significantly better experience with Brave Search, though. I’ll probably switch my default soon, once I learn the operators that Brave supports.
- trts 5y ago
  The bang operators for ddg justify it as my default even knowing that it isn’t very good for some queries. The habit of being able to reroute a search to the engine that will handle it most appropriately is a killer feature. Only drawback is that the redirect can take an extra few seconds sometimes. It’s hard to imagine replacing it. If Brave search becomes excellent then I can just use the bang for it.
  - Comkid 5y ago
    Brave Search already has bangs, they imported them from DDG. I believe they’ve changed some of them though
anaganisk 5y ago
What wrong if they’re trying to find more money while providing privacy? Would you rather have a browser from rich monopoly like google? Or an alternative thats self sustainable with its own money?
- DeathArrow 5y ago
  "If you are not paying for a product, you are the actual product being sold."
pmurt7 5y ago
duckduckgo is Bing with a new skin and privacy features. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index.
soundnote 5y ago
Of course it does. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and companies have to make money. One of the best things about Brave is that it's aggressively trying to build independent revenue streams and a footprint on the net. A company with solid, diverse, independent sources of revenue is much better positioned to keep making independent decisions. http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2021_09_06.html#adam%27s-rant http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2021_09_06.ht...
JohnWhigham 5y ago
Despite all their posturing about privacy, DDG is the same as Google. Especially given their founder's history with selling user data.

For all the love DDG gets on this site, it’s not really an independent search engine. It relies heavily on the Bing index, despite spinning it as using it as one of many signals. Brave has its own index and that puts it in another class. In my experience the results have been higher quality, too.

DeathArrow 5y ago
>Brave has its own index Brave has Brendan Eich and that individual knows a thing or two about what matters in tech.

sholladay 5y ago

Have you spent much time with Brave Search? I use Firefox and currently have DDD as the default search on my laptop, but I often use the !g operator since the DDD results are routinely not as good as Google. I’ve had a significantly better experience with Brave Search, though. I’ll probably switch my default soon, once I learn the operators that Brave supports.

trts 5y ago
The bang operators for ddg justify it as my default even knowing that it isn’t very good for some queries. The habit of being able to reroute a search to the engine that will handle it most appropriately is a killer feature. Only drawback is that the redirect can take an extra few seconds sometimes. It’s hard to imagine replacing it. If Brave search becomes excellent then I can just use the bang for it.
- Comkid 5y ago
  Brave Search already has bangs, they imported them from DDG. I believe they’ve changed some of them though

anaganisk 5y ago

What wrong if they’re trying to find more money while providing privacy? Would you rather have a browser from rich monopoly like google? Or an alternative thats self sustainable with its own money?

DeathArrow 5y ago
"If you are not paying for a product, you are the actual product being sold."

pmurt7 5y ago

duckduckgo is Bing with a new skin and privacy features. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index.

soundnote 5y ago

Of course it does. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and companies have to make money. One of the best things about Brave is that it's aggressively trying to build independent revenue streams and a footprint on the net. A company with solid, diverse, independent sources of revenue is much better positioned to keep making independent decisions. http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2021_09_06.html#adam%27s-rant http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2021_09_06.ht...

JohnWhigham 5y ago

Despite all their posturing about privacy, DDG is the same as Google. Especially given their founder's history with selling user data.