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If you have a web browser that isn’t Firefox, it’s probably Chromium these days. Also irrelevant to the search product. Regarding the search product, you’re su
by starttoaster 2y ago
If you have a web browser that isn’t Firefox, it’s probably Chromium these days. Also irrelevant to the search product.
Regarding the search product, you’re suggesting they used to use Bing/Google but now don’t. … Does that not mean they run their own indexers? So you’re just diminishing their value today based on what they used to do?
- swiftcoder 2y agoNot as irrelevant as it might seem. They do run their own indexers now, but my understanding is that they didn't actually build the index that way. They used the Brave browser traffic to guide which pages to index, which was primarily driven by the Google/Bing search results the browser was vending at that time. it's more of an embrace-extend strategy than a build-from-scratch
- starttoaster 2y agoThe point of my previous response stands... What is the difference in how one reaches a destination, if they in fact did make it to that destination? Granted, this does read a bit like an ethical dilemma where people with different values may come to different conclusions. But if you use Brave search today, you are getting results sourced from Brave's index, and not Microsoft/Google's, so in my mind, how they got to this point is now irrelevant. It's just smarter to do it how they did instead of starting from square 1.