Brave Search Reviews

1. Notgiv Inmaname

   · Random guy at Hypothetical Inexistent Organization of Proffesional Dumbasses · almost 5 years ago
   Brave Search is way better than other search engines.

   In contrast to other "private" search engines (except for Presearch and SearX), it doesn't have trackers, or not nearly as many. This information can be verified by installing uBlock Origin and ClearURLs, which detect 0 and 2 trackers respectively, against for example DuckDuckGo's nearly 10 and 19. Other alternatives are SearX (No trackers AT ALL, still kinda user-friendly) and Presearch (A bit easier to use but a tiny bit worse for privacy, it has 1 more tracking element).

   🏁 Competitors: DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, StartPage, Presearch, Searx, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, Ask.com, Qwant

   👍 Pros:    Good search results|Not too many trackers|Not buggy|Easy to use

   👎 Cons:    Has 2 tracking url elements

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Brave Search mentions (346)

• Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

  Https://search.brave.com other things that came up in a search not mentioned in post yet (that I have heard of before): mojeek or yacy - are these any good? List of searx instances (I've used some of these a while ago but not recently so idk of their quality currently): https://searx.space/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

  Https://search.brave.com/ Feels like Google Search from 2008. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Brave Search is the default search engine for AI agents -- not Google

  1. Check your site on Brave Search. Go to search.brave.com, search for your site name, your top articles, your product. Compare the results to Google. You might find articles that rank well on Google but are invisible on Brave -- or the reverse. When I first did this, I discovered several of my technical posts were completely absent from Brave's index despite ranking on the first page of Google. Different index,... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Preums, reminds me that coding without AI is magical

  That alone breaks the basic rule of TDD. And there are great tools like DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and StackOverflow to help us with our needs. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

  Brave search is also quite nice: https://search.brave.com/ I find Google to generally have some of the worst search results of modern engines with one exception - Google tends to be good at digging up results from things like forums/message boards that don't end up getting listed on other search engines. I don't entirely understand why this is because other engines also have them indexed and work fine with... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Pointer Pointer mentions (43)

• Show HN: See what country you would hit if you went straight (1 BC → Present)

  This seems to be from the same universe as the excellent https://pointerpointer.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Issue with mouse hover

  I've just installed Sonoma and it works mostly ok. Though I've ran into this issue where the OS doesn't seem to know where my mouse is until I click. The cursor itself is displayed where it should be and all, but if I right click something on the dock then I can't really click anything in the menu. If I hold the right click and then hover to what I want to do in the menu then it works. I also went to the website... Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: I made a really silly personal landing page

  Very neat! Reminds me of this: https://pointerpointer.com I'll say, I'm very disappointed in what happens when I put the cursor between your eyes. :). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What are some amazing websites that are flying under the radar?

  This website where people point at your pointer. Source: over 3 years ago

• Clock

  This reminds me of https://pointerpointer.com/ which finds pictures with the right pointer instead of quotes with the right time. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago