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> Brave Search's index there will be informed the activities of participating Brave users, in terms of the URLs they search for or click on, and adjacent web re

> Brave Search's index there will be informed the activities of participating Brave users, in terms of the URLs they search for or click on, and adjacent web resources that don't require extensive crawling. > Brave also envisions users taking a more active role in their search results through a filtering mechanism. "It allows different groups to run their own sort of Turing complete filter rules, sort of like ad blocking rules in the search service and not in the browser, to have a community moderated view of the global index," he [Brendan Eich, Brave founder] explained. "It's called 'Goggles.'"

topspin 6y ago
I'd love to be able to filter out, for instance, pinterest. I'd actually pay nominal amounts of money for a search service that had my interests in mind; as opposed to advertisers and thought police.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
  > and thought police Copyright interests pay large cash to make sure you know is truly best for you. You could show a little gratitude.
  - topspin 6y ago
    Indeed. I'll keep that in mind.
- samizdis 6y ago
  I was pretty sure that it could be done in Google with operators in the search box (going back a few years), but I don't use Google any more and one reason I stopped was that it kept incrementally degrading the ability to refine individual searches manually. Anyhow, I just did a DDG search and came across this [1], which looks interesting for your use case (although that Pinterest is mentioned is a coincidence). I've not tried it out, so I can't recommend, comment or anything. [1] https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinterest-and-other-sites-google-search.htm https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinteres...
- ceh123 6y ago
  Shameless plug, but I've been working on a project [0] that does exactly this. Currently it just has a few filters I've created for myself and only supports web search (and a few !bang like re-directs), but I'm working on implementing user accounts that will be able to create their own filters. [0] https://hadal.io https://hadal.io
  - chriscyber 6y ago
    Pretty cool. It filters by URL?
    - ceh123 6y ago
      Yup, that's exactly it. I've found that there are certain websites that I have basically no interest in seeing. Eventually I might incorporate more granularity to get sub-domains or something like that, but for now it's just whole websites based on URL.
- depingus 6y ago
  You can just add -site:pinterest.com in DuckDuckGo. I think you can do the same in Google.
  - topspin 6y ago
    I'm well aware of the various search flags. I can also think of at least 10 domains I'd like to permanently obviate from every search. Adding flags for all of these every time is unwieldy. I have toyed with browser extensions to achieve this, but I quickly learned that using many of these flags will compromise search results. A good solution will require a search engine that anticipates this use case.
- BrendanEich 6y ago
  Me too — most image searches need a "-pinterest" term added.
  - ffpip 6y ago
    google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1) Add to uBlock Origin 'My Filters' Section :)
BrendanEich 6y ago
Turing incomplete. Thanks, will get a correction to the reporter.
- BrendanEich 6y ago
  Fixed. Thanks again.

topspin 6y ago

I'd love to be able to filter out, for instance, pinterest. I'd actually pay nominal amounts of money for a search service that had my interests in mind; as opposed to advertisers and thought police.

WarOnPrivacy 6y ago
> and thought police Copyright interests pay large cash to make sure you know is truly best for you. You could show a little gratitude.
- topspin 6y ago
  Indeed. I'll keep that in mind.
samizdis 6y ago
I was pretty sure that it could be done in Google with operators in the search box (going back a few years), but I don't use Google any more and one reason I stopped was that it kept incrementally degrading the ability to refine individual searches manually. Anyhow, I just did a DDG search and came across this [1], which looks interesting for your use case (although that Pinterest is mentioned is a coincidence). I've not tried it out, so I can't recommend, comment or anything. [1] https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinterest-and-other-sites-google-search.htm https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-remove-pinteres...
ceh123 6y ago
Shameless plug, but I've been working on a project [0] that does exactly this. Currently it just has a few filters I've created for myself and only supports web search (and a few !bang like re-directs), but I'm working on implementing user accounts that will be able to create their own filters. [0] https://hadal.io https://hadal.io
- chriscyber 6y ago
  Pretty cool. It filters by URL?
  - ceh123 6y ago
    Yup, that's exactly it. I've found that there are certain websites that I have basically no interest in seeing. Eventually I might incorporate more granularity to get sub-domains or something like that, but for now it's just whole websites based on URL.
depingus 6y ago
You can just add -site:pinterest.com in DuckDuckGo. I think you can do the same in Google.
- topspin 6y ago
  I'm well aware of the various search flags. I can also think of at least 10 domains I'd like to permanently obviate from every search. Adding flags for all of these every time is unwieldy. I have toyed with browser extensions to achieve this, but I quickly learned that using many of these flags will compromise search results. A good solution will require a search engine that anticipates this use case.
BrendanEich 6y ago
Me too — most image searches need a "-pinterest" term added.
- ffpip 6y ago
  google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."]) google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1) Add to uBlock Origin 'My Filters' Section :)

BrendanEich 6y ago

Turing incomplete. Thanks, will get a correction to the reporter.

BrendanEich 6y ago
Fixed. Thanks again.