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> Marketing and evangelism isn't free, but I find it hard to believe $37.5M per year wouldn't cover everything they need to do. At an average of $200k per emplo
by pseudalopex 2y ago
> Marketing and evangelism isn't free, but I find it hard to believe $37.5M per year wouldn't cover everything they need to do. At an average of $200k per employee, that's 187 people.
PitchBook estimated Brave had 191 employees before they cut 27 last year. Mozilla don't have a search engine. But Brave don't have a browser engine. And they couldn't commit to keep uBlock Origin working.
- xnx 2y agoMozilla doesn't have the burden of trying to be profitable that Brave does. Not sure Brave has a search engine any more than it does a browser engine. Brave search is powered by Bing.
- notpushkin 2y agoThey claim they do serve 92% from their own indexes, though I’m not sure we can verify that: https://dkb.blog/p/brave-search-interview https://dkb.blog/p/brave-search-interview
- xnx 2y agoInteresting number. I wouldn't be surprised if ranking comes from Bing and they serve snippets of the Bing ranked results from their "independent" index.