Brave Cuts Ties With Bing To Offer Its Own Image and Video Search Results (theregister.com) 14
Brave Software, maker of the Brave web browser, has tuned its search engine to run on a homegrown index of images and videos in an effort to end its dependency on "Big Tech" rivals. The Register reports: On Thursday, the company said that image and video results from Brave Search -- available on the web at search.brave.com and via its browser -- will be served from Brave's own index. Search indexes are made by visiting online resources -- typically web pages, images, videos, or other files -- with a crawler bot and recording the locations of these resources in a database. And when an internet user submits a query to a search engine, the search engine checks its index (and possible other sources) to find the addresses of resources that correspond to the query keywords. There's actually a lot more to it but that's the basic idea.
Brave now aims to ride the wave of discontent with "Big Tech" by highlighting its commitment to privacy and independence â" small tech. "Brave Search is 100 percent private and anonymous, which sets a high bar for image/video search to meet," the company said in a blog post provided to The Register. "Whether it's a matter of personal safety or personal preference, users should be able to discover content without their search engine reporting and profiling those results to a Big Tech company." [...] Brave argues that having its own index frees the company from content decisions made by others. "Brave is on a mission to build a user-first Web," the company said in its blog post. "That mission starts with the Brave browser and Brave Search. With the release of image and video search, we're continuing to innovate within the search industry, providing viable and preferable products for users who want choice and transparency in their search for information online."
Brave now aims to ride the wave of discontent with "Big Tech" by highlighting its commitment to privacy and independence â" small tech. "Brave Search is 100 percent private and anonymous, which sets a high bar for image/video search to meet," the company said in a blog post provided to The Register. "Whether it's a matter of personal safety or personal preference, users should be able to discover content without their search engine reporting and profiling those results to a Big Tech company." [...] Brave argues that having its own index frees the company from content decisions made by others. "Brave is on a mission to build a user-first Web," the company said in its blog post. "That mission starts with the Brave browser and Brave Search. With the release of image and video search, we're continuing to innovate within the search industry, providing viable and preferable products for users who want choice and transparency in their search for information online."
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Who said anything about hardware? Neither the summary nor the article mention hardware. And why would the hardware that hosts their search engine, have any bearing on their goals?
Shitty Chrome clone with crypto tokens (Score:1)
who cares?
Re:Shitty Chrome clone with crypto tokens (Score:5, Informative)
I'm using Brave right now, not because I care about the crypto thing (I don't have that feature enabled). I use it because they have better ad-blocking than anybody else. It actually defeats the popups that many sites have these days, that urge you to "please whitelist us." And as for the quality of the browser, it's "good enough" for me.
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Great, more bad AI from their 'search' team (Score:3)
They already strip quotes, remove conjugation/tense, and just about any other way to actually find a specific string of words in their search. I can only imagine what non-QA'ed barely related garbage their image search results will bring back.
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I like the idea behind the Brave search engine (not so much the spyware browser), and it's my default search engine. However, the search results are frequently much less useful than Google's. I hope they continue improving the search engine, though.
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The NSFW image result growing pains have been rather amusing.
I'll give them another try.
Chromium (Score:2)