Minus 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

Minus mentions (4)

• Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Twitter?

  Minus is pretty fun. You get to post 100 times until you can't post anymore https://minus.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• On Creating a Social Network

  > That's a big part of the appeal of places like Hacker News and Tumblr- the focus on being a social network without adding in additional ad-delivery "features." I myself wouldn't count Hacker News as a social network. There isn't anything that caters towards individuals making connections with one another. It's all about short-lasting exchanges between strangers on a given topic. The social aspect is fleeting... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Why do we still permit tobacco use?

  > Posting too much on social media is a vice Sounds like you'd love https://minus.social/ where you are limited to 100 posts - for life. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Whatever Happened to “Exploring the Internet”?

  There are a lot of really interesting things on Neocities. Check out their Browse section, enter a tag of anything you're interested in, set the filter, and check out what's there: https://neocities.org/browse I've also been having a lot of fun on minus which is a minimal social network that gives each user a lifespan of 100 posts max: https://minus.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years 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 / 9 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 / 9 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 / 9 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 / 9 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 / 9 days ago