[HN Gopher] Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and...
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       Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search
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       Author : rntn
       Score  : 85 points
       Date   : 2023-08-03 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
        
       | cpursley wrote:
       | What powers Brave's AI search now? It's pretty darn good - I like
       | it much better than Google.
        
       | milsorgen wrote:
       | I use a mix of Google (built in Android search left in default
       | configuration) and Brave Search (actual browser initiated
       | search). Secondary phone uses Bing across the board. Each has its
       | strengths those strengths are quite subtle and I really only
       | prefer one to the other after hundreds of searches and getting a
       | 'feel' for each. Bing and Brave seem to perform quite similarly
       | in terms of results served yet I feel the design of Brave is more
       | responsive. I'm rather impressed Brave built something as quick
       | as they did as I have been using Bing for years and it took a
       | long, long time before I felt it was good enough to ditch Google
       | search entirely.
        
         | Awmusic12635 wrote:
         | Brave bought a search engine awhile back [1]
         | 
         | [1] https://brave.com/brave-search/
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe]
        
         | ChrisArchitect wrote:
         | More discussion over here:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988744
        
       | mdaniel wrote:
       | currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988744
        
       | throwaway67743 wrote:
       | The article attributes the declining Google results to ai, but
       | that is not the case - it's been awful for many many years before
       | "ai" (parroting search results is not ai)
        
         | BitwiseFool wrote:
         | Google either gives me the most generic results imaginable, or
         | it fixates on what it _thinks_ I want while completely ignoring
         | my old google-fu techniques.
        
           | anotherhue wrote:
           | Showing results for Google Foobar
           | 
           | 1. Check out this amazing word everyone WORKING AT GOOGLE
           | knows!
           | 
           | 2. Buy FooBar coin here! Ladies in your area are waiting.
           | 
           | edit: try it yourself, it's even worse than I thought.
        
       | fsflover wrote:
       | I will consider Brave when they cut ties with Chromium (i.e.
       | Google).
        
       | pketh wrote:
       | I'm surprised kagi doesn't come up more in discussions like
       | these. I'm pretty much full time on it and it's totally replace
       | google seedy for me. (Not affiliated, just a happy customer)
        
         | slaw wrote:
         | Kagi uses Google search results.
         | 
         | https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-google.html
        
           | Terretta wrote:
           | > _Kagi uses Google search results._
           | 
           | That's reductive.
           | 
           |  _"Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional
           | search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like
           | Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-
           | commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI
           | for instant answers. Teclis and TinyGem are a result of our
           | crawl through millions of domains, focusing primarily on non-
           | commercial, high-quality content."_
           | 
           |  _"Our unique results combined from all of these sources help
           | you discover the best content you can possibly find online,
           | sometimes from the quieter places on the web."_
           | 
           | https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-brave.html
        
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