[krmboya]

Moved from DDG to Brave Search about 6 months ago and haven't missed DDG at all. I can still use the !bangs I was accustomed to.

Given that Brave uses its own search index, and only a few times do I need to fall back to Google, it feels good to have a measure of independence from the Google/Bing dominance in search

[QuantumGood]

> Brave uses its own search index

Did not know that. I immediately grabbed some recent "poor result" Google searches from history and tried them at search.brave.com — so far ALL results are better. Reminds me a bit of Google from ten years ago.

Google's decline into its present inability to NOT show only "assumed popular content" created a huge time sink in my life that wasn't there before. Not a fan of the over- and inaccurate use of "disruption" but it was a legitimate description for what Google did to other search engines, and this feels like a similar level of improvement. I'm frankly amazed at how good the search results are in my initial test.

[Abishek_Muthian]

> I immediately grabbed some recent "poor result" Google searches from history

Did you revisit every query from your recent Google searches (or) Is it that you have a good memory that you were able to remember poor results from looking at the query?

I'm asking this because, I've been contemplating a 'Search Engine Wall of Shame'[1] where people can submit their poor search results for the engines to make actionable changes towards improving them.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/207-search-engine-wall-of-shame... (Disclosure: It's my problem validation forum).

[QuantumGood]

Worthy project, thank you.

I re-opened several Google SERPs from my history and compared to Brave.

I often find NO results relevant to my query on the first three pages of search Google results, often seemingly because there is a "more common/popular" aspect of the topic I am searching about, and everything is about the common and related aspects and none about my use case.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Thank you.

Would you be willing to submit your bad search results to such forum? I welcome you to post your bad search results with the queries to that needgap thread for the time being unless there's a dedicated forum for that.

[QuantumGood]

I am willing, but the odds actually doing so are low (busy and disorganized).

[Abishek_Muthian]

That's fine, Next time you come across a bad search result, I hope you remember this conversation.

[tommica]

Brave search does feel like a differens search engine, i really appreciate their goggles and forum post features.

[potamic]

Brave automatically changed my default search engine on private tabs to their search. I don't know if it was a bug or feature, but this kind of behaviour keeps me wary from committing.

[moralestapia]

Anecdata for anecdata: that didn't happen with me, I'm still on DDG.

[malnourish]

Similarly, I moved to Kagi and couldn't be happier

[kactus]

Same, Kagi is great. I tried to make do with DDG and uBlacklist, but with my rules file reaching 269 domains in about 3 months, I gave up.

Love being able to customize the ranking order for specific domains.

[jxramos]

is this related to the browser or do they have a standalone website for search? Never knew about it, looks like its https://search.brave.com/

[krmboya]

It's standalone website. Not tied to their browser