It's been 2 years and still no new regions added

2 years and no new regions added. Is that it? Is that all the regions Brave Search is going to support? Can someone from the team give us some answers?

Can you be more specific about what it is you’re asking? Do you mean regions in which users can use Brave Search?

No, I don’t mean that. I mean specific results based on your region. Ireland, Croatia, Greece, Hungary and many more. At least add Greece so I don’t have to use the shitty duckduckgo anymore.

You’re not going to answer? Is it in the works? Do you guys even care? Or you’re just going to ghost me?

Patience…he responded on Friday. They don’t work on weekends or American holidays. So you responded 2 days ago, on Sunday. This is a day he wouldn’t be working. Then yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr day, so a holiday where nobody was working.

This means you haven’t even given him a single day to respond. And usually he is more Pacific time, meaning even as I’m responding to you, it would only be 6:55 AM. Businesses open around 9am here in the United States in general. Give him time to reach out to ask questions of people on the Search team if necessary, but also to be able to get to work, read your reply, and get back to you in general.

I understand now, apologies for the confusion.

I can say confidently that yes, more regions will be available in future releases but I don’t have more more information for you at this time than that. I have however asked our Search team to see if they have anything they can share regarding this work.

Thank you

He responded within hours on my first response so I thought that was going to be the wait time. Didn’t know about the USA off days I’m not from there obviously. My bad.

I agree Stav,

I just switched back to duckduckgo because it was giving me results for Walmart instead of local Australian shops. I bought something not realising it was USD and got slammed at the bank. yuck. even when I go into search tools and manually change it to results from Australia, I get USA results. it’s one of the reasons I stopped using google. It’s gross and it needs to be fixed

At least your country is included, mine doesn’t even exist. I’ve been using brave search for 2 years and Greece is still NOT included, so I am forced to get used to the dogshit bing search results from duckduckgo.

at MOST my country is on the list. It doesn’t actually work, I too get the dogshit Bing search results from Duckduckgo because all the results are US centric, even when I select my country. Its absolute nonsense

I agree with @StaV that more region should be supported. I dont want to use the big names like Google and Bing. I how Brave search looks and the AI information on top is awesome but needs to support all regions like google do. IT is useless at the moment when I look to purchase something at a local store and gives me information on a country that is 10 hours by plane from my location.

Can we get on sooner please!? @Mattches ?

Hey guys, just bumping this one year on. I love using Brave but using Brave Search is very frustrating because my region is not included. I understand that due to our population size we might be way down the list of priorities, but I would really appreciate it if Ireland was added :slight_smile:

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I have to say, I completely agree with you @Gallywag, it would be fantastic to have localised results for Irish users with Brave Search. Although, it’s completely understandable that we aren’t at the top of the priorities list with such a small amount of users from Ireland

Those remarking about regions not being added, you might consider taking some things into your own hands and promoting Brave Search yourself…

e.g. Telling local businesses about it and having them add their websites to Brave Search, and/or doing it yourself for them, but just in general spreading things word of mouth, IN YOUR REGION, it can be done with the…

Brave Search URL Indexing/re-fetch:

and I know obviously that’s a lot to ask, but really so is asking Brave to do what you are requesting (at least as far as I can tell) for pretty much the exact same reason.

But to learn more about Brave Search, check out, the Web Discovery Project here: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project

If there aren’t that many websites connected with Brave Search, there’s no point and/or it’s very difficult in setting up regions for it, right?

I mean for example, Ireland gets a Region setting in Brave Search but only 2 websites are associated, such as https://www.gov.ie/en/ & http://u2.com/ than how helpful would that really be FOR your region anyway?

BTW: I love (the band) U2, so I don’t mean to sound stereotypical or anything :face_with_hand_over_mouth: :man_shrugging:

(Hope this helps & also full disclosure, I didn’t read entire Topic thread, so sorry if this is repetitive in anyway or just overall generally useless to anyone :man_shrugging:)

Hey, thanks for your response.

It’s definitely true that more people need to be made aware of Brave here in Ireland, and it’s definitely not a well known search engine by most people I know anyway. I would recommend it to anyone interested here, but there haven’t been many people like that that I have met.

Also, U2 is totally not being stereotypical, I know a lot of people who love that band, but I haven’t listened to too many of their songs myself.