MetaCrawler VS Brave Search

MetaCrawler 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

MetaCrawler mentions (2)

• Study Says Almost 30% of People Are Redoing or Refining Their Google Searches/On Reddit, people have also complained about crummy Google Search results

  I'm not sure how much the current metacrawler.com has in common with the older versions, but it does seem to work quite well. Source: over 1 year ago

• The internet is becoming less and less useful

  Nice. Earlier this week after trying a fairly simple search query that would have been a cinch to find actual web pages that talked about my topic, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, all failed big time. I mean, the majority of the first twenty results didn't even contain my first search term. I went looking for "old school" search engines that might still adhere to boolean search rules, and most of the classics either no... Source: over 1 year ago

Brave Search mentions (329)

• Ask HN: Do you still use Google search?

  Google -> almost never (only by accident if using somebody else's device) Brave Search* [0] -> almost always (if I don't like the results I prepend/append the bang [1] "!s" to switch to Startpage. * with Firefox, not their browser [0] https://search.brave.com/ [1] https://search.brave.com/help/bangs. - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• DuckDuckGo AI Chat

  Pretty cool! I use Brave Search (https://search.brave.com) and it too got AI results a few months ago. They're quite helpful! - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Are my searches tracked by google if I us google seach in Brave?

  Best way to protect yourself from that is to use other search engines that do not track you (I really like Brave Search, but if you want Google results without tracking try Startpage). Source: 6 months ago

• Google Pays $21B for Search Monopoly: How "Free" Tech Markets Repress

  Instead of DuckDuckGo and Ecosia whose use Bing Search, they should share real alternative like https://kagi.com/ or https://search.brave.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Are there valid Google Search alternatives?

  No need to pay for Kagi imo https://search.brave.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago