Curlie Directory Reviews

Brave Search Reviews

1. Notgiv Inmaname

   | Random guy at Hypothetical Inexistent Organization of Proffesional Dumbasses | over 2 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

Curlie Directory mentions (9)

• A look at search engines with their own indexes

  Ohh I remember Google Directory, good times. They closed it down for good in 2011. Dmoz was also closed, but it seems like there's a "new" Dmoz called Curlie [1], founded by some of the original team members. [1] https://curlie.org. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful

  Some places where you could search for personal blogs https://nownownow.com/ https://ooh.directory/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://curlie.org/ https://nekoweb.org/ https://blogs.hn/ https://wiby.me/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?: The Criterion Collection

  A start on something like this might already exist. Curlie [1] is a hand-built directory or table of contents to the web, something like the the old DMOZ Open Directory Project [2]. 1. https://curlie.org/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Kagi Smallweb [a directory of small/personal websites]

  I've started making a list of "small web" sites https://wiby.me/surprise/ https://ooh.directory/random/ https://ooh.directory/ https://curlie.org/ and now this one too! - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

  > It was pre-social-media and pre-wiki, so none of these directories were optimized to take advantage of crowdsourcing. False. Google Directory (and many other major name, mostly now defunct, web directories) used DMOZ which was, in fact, crowdsourced (and kind of still is, though the current name is Curlie [0] and while some parts of the website show updated as recently as today, enough fairly core links are dead... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Brave Search mentions (334)

• Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

  I was talking about Brave Search (https://search.brave.com), not Brave browser. Seaech doesn't promote crypto. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

• Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

  Brave rolled their own completely independent search [1] on what I assume is a relatively limited budget. It seems that regularly grabbing the data would be pretty easy. The harder part would be searching/ordering it in an efficient and meaningful way while avoiding SEO, but that seems more like a fun problem than a difficult one (if not both). [1] - https://search.brave.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

• Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

  Brave Search [1] is 100% independent. There's also Yandex [2] which also works excellently, but is biased towards more Russian language results. The image search is second to none though. [1] - https://search.brave.com/ [2] - https://yandex.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

• Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search

  Nice to see https://search.brave.com/, https://entireweb.com and https://mojeek.com are still kicking it. In case anyone needs to know alternatives besides the monopoly that is Google. - Source: Hacker News / 24 days ago

• What Happened to DuckDuckGo?

  Https://search.brave.com/ using that as my default search engine on firefox since last year. Quite happy with the quality of results. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago