What are you referencing on that?
This hasn’t been my experience. There was also a post earlier where someone claimed that the search engine only gave positive results on id.me but when I did the search, it showed a mix of things including a lot talking about how the IRS is no longer demanding it and how there was a lot of backlash on it.
The people who work on programming and development don’t always use the forum. It’s pointless if you complain to the wrong people about things. This is why I mentioned the proper place to give feedback so that those who have control over it are able to keep an eye out and make changes.
It’s also important to read what has been said, that search results are built through tracking of browsers. It’s all anonymous but it does look to see what is searched and what people click on. While there’s other things going on behind the scenes that I’m not even going to pretend to understand, I do know they said this data is something that is helping to build it.
I took someone who said they had started using it 2 years ago and that it is only recent that things began to change. Yet if it’s brand new and not even around for a year, that diminishes what he said. For example, how recent is recent? If you go back to his history they joined the forum November 2021 and posted about it at Brave Search and the problem of censorship & irrelevant results for AVERAGE LAYMAN USER
Brave Search (Beta) was released at the end of June 2021. So yes, that gives July, August, September, and October for them to have used it. As data was being collected and more things added to the search engine, I’m sure types of results would change. Nobody is taking from that. But it’s very important to realize that ~5-6 months is nowhere near 2 years. If you lie or exaggerate on that, then what else are you going to lie or exaggerate on? It makes it difficult to take seriously.
I’m no expert on it and not going to pretend. What I will say is if you’re using terminology which is more commonly used by particular groups, wouldn’t it make sense it will only pull up things by those groups? Like if I used derogatory search terms for a particular sexuality or skin color, do you think it would be positive things that show up or would it more likely be the hate groups using those terms? I mean, it’s like you’re saying you search for “hate” and then get mad that it doesn’t talk about “love.”
Correct, your opinion and experiences on search results and all aren’t going to be diminished based on the amount of time. All that matters is the experience you have had.
Where it did become important though is when you used it as a basis for your judgment, as it diminishes everything else you say. I mean, if you’re wrong on that then it makes people question what else you’re wrong about. That’s all. So that one comment is what had some issue, at least with me.
That’s possible. I use Brave Search every once in a while but it’s not been good in my opinion, as it took a lot more effort for me to find things I need. The only thing that I do know is that we’ve been told about the feedback option, it’s been shared they are anonymously watching what we’re searching and interacting, etc and they are building their search engine from that. So when I see people mention issues with results, it’s important to let people know the best way to reach out and provide feedback to try to make those changes.
I try not to get into politics much. There’s a lot of love and hate for both liberals and conservatives. I’m somewhere in the middle, which is where I think the truth exists. Unfortunately a lot of people are on the extremes and show extreme hatred and a complete lack of empathy/compassion for each other. You are right that right now, there’s been a lot of movements on impeding freedom around the world. I haven’t seen much of an issue with that in regards to Brave beyond just how they have to play the political game. Not because they want to but they have to walk the line as cautiously as they can so they don’t have government step in to fine them or shut them down.
I get some people don’t like that, but how can they help us with privacy and freedom of information if they become enemies of the government and are shutdown by them? So they at least provide an illusion they cooperate, such as how they did when sanctions demanded no more RT made available. Brave removed RT but then they created a backdoor option to allow Users to put it back on feeds.