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[NEW] Brave Search #489

Open namelessperson0 opened 1 year ago

namelessperson0 commented 1 year ago

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Alternative name

Brave Search

Section

Web-based products

Description

!0 points by itsfoss on why Brave search is good. https://itsfoss.com/brave-search-features

Brave Search has been added and removed in this repo before. The criticisms of Brave search are not enough to be not included in the list. I have replied to the criticisms at https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle/issues/415

Reason for adding

  1. Brave Search Goggles (https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart) provides ability for the user to manipulate the search results rather than the platform solely deciding in the algorithm.
  3. Brave search provides 93% of results in own index and rest is from fallback. DuckDuckGo is not transparent on how much they fallback.
  4. Brave search supports Tor. In contrast, Google blacklists Tor IP's. More info on how their web discovery project https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project/blob/main/modules/web-discovery-project/sources/README.md

URL

https://search.brave.com

Is this alternative hosted in a country that performs surveillance?

Is there a cost to use this alternative?

Freemium (Free tier but paid upgrades)

Please indicate if self-hosting is possible, not possible, or the only option

Not possible

tycrek commented 11 months ago

I'm hesitant to add this because of the issues surrounding Brave browser and the parent company. See #69 for more info. I'll leave this open for now for discussion.