• Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    318·
    6 months ago

    Brave search is independent. It was trained with google search but now it’s a thing of its own and doesn’t rely on google. I switched from DuckDuckGo a year ago and haven’t looked back

    • mholiv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      6 months ago

      Brave search is run by crypto bros. I’d rather use Kagi or DDG or even Google.

      • Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        44·
        6 months ago

        I would use Kagi if it was free. It might be run by crypto bros but doesn’t mean it’s a bad product. Google and bing own 99% of the search engine market. Competition that doesn’t rely on those two is always good

        • tranceFusion@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          Well they were dishonest about the product behavior in multiple cases, such as adding referral links to search results. That makes it a bad product.

          • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            6 months ago

            That is a much better argument. But I still use it because I finally get different results from bing or Google.

          • Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            12·
            6 months ago

            I agree they were, but that’s the benefits of open source you can call out companies for doing stupid shit. Just like when Mozilla adds unnecessary telemetry.

            • tranceFusion@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Brave products are not open source. Not their search, and not the browser. Your post wording seems to imply that it is.

          • Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Personally I don’t want to support Microsoft bing either. This website you shared doesn’t lump together all the bing using search engines (DuckDuckGo and yahoo). How is supporting Microsoft a wayyy better choice. This isn’t some pump and dump scheme. Your criticism should be of the company (they added referall links to their browser and the owner has some nasty political takes on top of running another privacy invasive company).