• Garry@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 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

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      5 months ago

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

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        5 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

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          5 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.

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            5 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).

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              It does not matter if it lumps them together or not. Google still has 90% and they’re not Bing. Yandax another ~3% and they’re not Bing. That means at max Bing is 7% if you combine the rest. 3.5% vs 7% does not change the root of my argument.

              Those points you make against Brave are valid though. I just run into too many people who are in the Brave cult and it’s concerning.