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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

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

tommica 4y ago
Brave search does feel like a differens search engine, i really appreciate their goggles and forum post features.
jxramos 4y ago
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/ https://search.brave.com/
- krmboya 4y ago
  It's standalone website. Not tied to their browser
potamic 4y ago
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 4y ago
  Anecdata for anecdata: that didn't happen with me, I'm still on DDG.
malnourish 4y ago
Similarly, I moved to Kagi and couldn't be happier
- kactus 4y ago
  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.
QuantumGood 4y 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.
- Abishek_Muthian 4y 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-search-submission https://needgap.com/problems/207-search-engine-wall-of-shame... (Disclosure: It's my problem validation forum).
  - QuantumGood 4y 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.
    - Abishek_Muthian 4y 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.

tommica 4y ago

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

jxramos 4y ago

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/ https://search.brave.com/

krmboya 4y ago
It's standalone website. Not tied to their browser

potamic 4y ago

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 4y ago
Anecdata for anecdata: that didn't happen with me, I'm still on DDG.

malnourish 4y ago

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

kactus 4y ago
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.

QuantumGood 4y 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.

Abishek_Muthian 4y 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-search-submission https://needgap.com/problems/207-search-engine-wall-of-shame... (Disclosure: It's my problem validation forum).
- QuantumGood 4y 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.
  - Abishek_Muthian 4y 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.