Also, I’m not even getting search results. Searching for “champions league” redirects me to CBS. I don’t want that. I want to see the score on google.com search results. I can’t watch TV right now. I want to check the score. I don’t want the TV website to open.
I had to visit google.com directly and type in my search there, rather than using the Brave address bar.
Hi @289wk , that is already my search engine. The search you see below, hitting Enter, usually takes me to some google result page like normal. Today, “champions league” as written here took me to the CBS/Paramount Plus page directly, as some new form of advertising of the final game. I’m on Brave to avoid ads.
You should try doing the same thing. Don’t go to google before searching, don’t use Brave with AI, just type champions league without quotes in your address bar. This uses the default search engine (usually).
I don’t even have the Paramount app installed. All you need is this browser, the address bar, and those two words, and it takes you to an unexpected website. As a security conscious user, being redirected to an unexpected site is not a pleasant thing.
I found the issue. Brave is now automatically picking my top visited matching page rather than searching for the text. This is new. If you wanted it to pick a match from the list you had to select the match after typing. Hitting Enter without selecting a match would search the result using your selected search provider.
Now, if there are matches, it picks the top one and doesn’t actually ever search, nor can I force it to search. This is going to be annoying. Will look for a way to disable it.
Brave itself calls this the “Quick Search” box, and there is a settings gear there in the screenshot to change the search provider for the Quick Search box.
I’m not such a big fan of the “Quick Random Behavior box”. I hope this is reverted to always search using the provider unless otherwise explicitly specified.
This sounds like it’s not a Brave issue, but rather something messed up with your config that forcefully changed your search engine. Does uninstalling and reinstalling Brave fix your issue?
My default search engine is already “{google:baseURL}search?q=%s”, which is different from the typical engine. However the search engine isn’t the issue. The bookmarked page is prioritized over attempting to send the text to the search engine.
In the desktop web browser, when I type in the “omni box”, I can see the list of what Brave is going to prioritize before I hit Enter. So I can see in the plan is to visit the Bookmark instead of searching, and I can adjust that plan by clicking the second option (search using Google Search).
In the mobile browser, no options are shown as I’m typing, and the 1st item in the plan is chosen automatically without ever showing me the other potential options. To get it to search instead of visit the bookmark, I have to blindly adjust my query or visit google directly.
Thanks for the info. As I don’t have an Android phone right now, I can’t test this for myself, but I can ask @Mattches, head of browser support, and see if he can direct you further.
Apologies but I do not understand what the issue here is.
On Android, if you type into the address bar and hit enter, it will run a search query using your default search engine and display the results.
If you enter a query and then tap one of the quick search icons in the bar above, then it will direct your search to that engine.
The only way it will take you to a site is if that site is in your history and that is the option you’re selecting or if for some reason the custom search engine you’re using is sending you to that site.
If I type “champions” or “champions league”, it shows this dropdown. Sometimes the first result is the bookmarked link, and sometimes it is the search option. Either way, I am provided with the opportunity to select which path I want to follow. This flow is user-friendly and obvious.
If I type “champions league”, then “go” (same flow as on Desktop), it heads directly to the CBS site without showing me any information about which path will be selected. No top match list. I feel like something changed and this is new behavior, otherwise I would have noticed this a long time ago.
If I type “other random text”, then “go”, it uses my default search engine. Again, without telling me the plan in advance. On Desktop I would have seen the plan, so I could choose if I didn’t want to search this and wanted to go to the website.
@nick1 I see.
Can you tell me what version of the browser you’re using and what Android device/model? I ask because, even with the bottom address bar enabled, when you tap into the address bar the keyboard opens and the address bar itself should jump to the top of the page, while the quick search options stay toward the bottom, above the keyboard:
It definitely should be picking the search option – the suggestions at the bottom should not be selected unless you tap on them. Can you please try and reproduce this with a different site that you’ve bookmarked?
