Kagi user here. This search engine is miles in front of all the other ones I've tried. Even has a toggle for searching for stuff within the fediverse!
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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I self host a searx instance for myself. Brave is one of the 6 engines I use. I think it's great. Brave search has at times found results that my other 5 engines have failed to which have been useful. I only touch their browser with a 39.5ft pole though. I'm still salty about the affiliate link incident. Maybe I should let it go, it's been years.
i was using Brave search until i discovered qwant. Been usjng it for months now and quite like it
I really want to switch to brave's search engine from ddg (mainly cuz brave has its own index while ddg uses Bing's). But I have a rlly nice theme on ddg, which makes me feel rlly comfortable. Sure, I can put up user themes/ user scripts whatever for brave search too, but I'm not getting the time to do all that.
Mind sharing what kinda theme you rocking?
I ditched brave for DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo for Ecosia…
I ditched brave for DuckDuckGo, then DuckDuckGo for Ecosia…
you went back to Bing and Google. Congratulations
Can you use the brave search engine from other browsers? (Is it a proxy for any other search engine?)
I'm expecting a negative, but a fella can dream.
Full disclosure: currently using StartPage and reasonably happy. StartPage is a proxy for Google as far as I can tell, although I've seen people say (on Reddit) it refers to Bing too.
No, it is not a proxy for another search index/engine.
Yes, you can add Brave search to your other browsers.
You can. For instance, look up the Brave Search extension on Firefox. Or you can just set the brave.search link to your home page button on any browser.
Oh thank-you. As you have guessed, I haven't done even basic investigation.
I'll try to add it on as a search engine on Firefox to play with.
Thank-you again kind netizen.
I use it regularly because it is so far the best free privacy respecting search. But holy shit the lack of features (can't even do boolean search) is insane
It's fine. Not a fan of the AI garbage generator at the top. For obscure queries Big G still returns the best results and this will not change any time soon.
Something else that won't change: If you're not paying for a service, then that service will be trying to monetize you in some other way and will therefore have an incentive to spy on you.
My negative picks are:
- By default it enables sending usage metrics and local search results which they claim to be anonymous.
- Also unlike other search engines it doesn't have parameters for search query which can be used set your preferences, thus avoiding hustle to configure settings everytime.(in cases like delete cookies when browser closed and incognito mode).