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I wonder how it compares to Brave Search API: https://brave.com/search/api/ https://brave.com/search/api/ Brave has complete search independence and has been
by gurgunday 2y ago
I wonder how it compares to Brave Search API:
https://brave.com/search/api/ https://brave.com/search/api/
Brave has complete search independence and has been doing this for a while, but I hear Kagi has great results, but at the same time I'm perfectly happy with Brave
Would be cool to hear from people who've tried both
- ricardo81 2y agoThey claim independence but they still don't have a user agent that has been seen in server logs. Last time I looked they use a browser user agent and follow Googlebot rules in robots.txt. Which is understandable because some webmasters use a whitelist approach to bots given how many there are, and you wouldn't want your search quality to hurt because e.g. Facebook blocks you. And a lot of their results correlate with Google's based on their historical Cliqz data. Not that I'm against Brave in any way, I think any alternative to Google's dominance is healthy. It just seems the touting of privacy, independence etc from alt search engines often has very loose meanings on those words, or sometimes comes across as god of the gaps platitudes.
- thesuitonym 2y agoBrave browser is adware, and I have no reason to believe their search is different. Kagi at least purports to not be.
- rsanek 2y agointeresting to see the Kagi logo on the linked Brave page
- thesuitonym 2y agoNot really, Kagi talks about how they use Brave here: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-competition.html#kagi-vs-brave-search https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-competition.html...
- dns_snek 2y agoAbout a year ago when I last tried Brave Search the quality of their results was often poor compared to Google, Bing, and Kagi, however their effort is appreciated and I hope that they continue improving.