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by QuantumGood 1406 days ago
> 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.
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Abishek_Muthian 1405 days ago
> 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).

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QuantumGood 1403 days ago
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.

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Abishek_Muthian 1401 days ago
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.

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QuantumGood 1397 days ago
I am willing, but the odds actually doing so are low (busy and disorganized).
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Abishek_Muthian 1397 days ago
That's fine, Next time you come across a bad search result, I hope you remember this conversation.
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