# What am I doing wrong with search? This kind of nonsensical result happens frequently. I want to use brave exclusively, but often find myself going back to search in safari **URL:** \ **Category:** Search Support\ **Tags:** performance\ **Created:** [December 8, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447 "2022-12-08T01:37:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twelve25oh9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@twelve25oh9](https://community.brave.app/u/twelve25oh9)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/1 "2022-12-08T01:37:40Z")
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**Author:** ![Saoiray](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/saoiray/32/212354_2.png) [@Saoiray](https://community.brave.app/u/Saoiray)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/2 "2022-12-08T15:31:20Z")
No idea. I tried to duplicate it on my iPhone just now and got these results ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/3/0/305052e71baba2246c2da4949a9fab804b161732.jpeg) What version of Brave are you using and which version of iOS? Are you typing this into search bar at Brave Search or you doing it via browser’s search bar? Does it happen the same if try one way vs the other? I did look for similar and noticed people have had this issue on different devices and browsers over the years. > **[r/osx - Why does Safari do this when trying to search?](https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/aa2qd6/why_does_safari_do_this_when_trying_to_search/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)** > > 6 votes and 12 comments so far on Reddit [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1227574](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1227574) [https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7980563](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7980563) [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/all/address-bar-inserts-20-in-spaces/026be81b-8df4-40a5-bdf5-22afd12ccfc6](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/all/address-bar-inserts-20-in-spaces/026be81b-8df4-40a5-bdf5-22afd12ccfc6) What I’m not sure of though is how to toggle it or adjust the issue. I’ll tag @michal just to see if he knows. ---
**Author:** ![twelve25oh9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@twelve25oh9](https://community.brave.app/u/twelve25oh9)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/3 "2022-12-08T15:58:02Z")
I use the address bar in the browser to search. Is there a standalone brave search a app? ---
**Author:** ![Saoiray](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/saoiray/32/212354_2.png) [@Saoiray](https://community.brave.app/u/Saoiray)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/4 "2022-12-08T16:02:43Z")
> [@twelve25oh9](#): > > Is there a standalone brave search a app? No, but you can go to [https://search.brave.com/](https://search.brave.com/) and search or you’re able to type it in on the URL/Search bar that’s always there (the one you use to go to websites). I guess part of me is wondering if it’s entering the `%20` only when you’re typing and submitting via the URL/Search bar and if it would do normal search if you did it at [https://search.brave.com/](https://search.brave.com/) instead. It’s just a random thought/question. Until then hoping Michal or @Mattches might know. Oh, and don’t forget the other questions I asked. It helps on them checking things out and offering solutions. - What version of Brave? - What iOS version? ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/5 "2022-12-08T18:48:33Z")
@twelve25oh9, I can’t reproduce this either and I don’t think I’ve seen this before. As @Saoiray is asking, I’d also like to know if you get the same results when you go to [search.brave.com](http://search.brave.com) and perform a search, or if this only happens when you use the address bar to search. I’m also curious if you get the same results if you were to only use a one-word query. For example, if you were to simply search “dog” in the address bar, what results do you get? ---
**Author:** ![twelve25oh9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@twelve25oh9](https://community.brave.app/u/twelve25oh9)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/6 "2022-12-08T19:01:11Z")
I’ll try the search bar next time instead of the url bar. My iOS version is 16.0.3 and my brave browser version is 1.45.1 (22.11.17.19). Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![twelve25oh9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@twelve25oh9](https://community.brave.app/u/twelve25oh9)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/7 "2022-12-08T19:01:47Z")
I’ll experiment and let you know. ---
**Author:** ![twelve25oh9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@twelve25oh9](https://community.brave.app/u/twelve25oh9)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/8 "2022-12-08T19:05:56Z")
I have done the exact same search via [search.brave.com](http://search.brave.com), and the results were much much better. I think the problem seems to be that the url bar is not entirely effective as a search bar like I’m accustomed to in other browsers. That’s perfectly fine, I’ll make the search page my homepage and all is right with the world! Thank you both for your help. ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/9 "2022-12-08T19:39:19Z")
@twelve25oh9, So this points to the issue being the default search option rather than an issue with Brave Search itself. If you’re willing, can you please perform a couple of tests for us? The first one being the other test I suggested above — if you simply type in one word (for example “Dog”) in the address bar with Brave Search set as your default search engine, do you still get the same results? I’m also curious as to whether you get similar results if you search via the address bar while a different search engine is set to your default. Feel free to set the default search engine to whatever you want, use the same search query you used in your initial example above and let us know what the results are. ---
**Author:** ![BigRich60](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/bigrich60/32/148947_2.png) [@BigRich60](https://community.brave.app/u/BigRich60)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 4:10am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/10 "2022-12-11T04:10:17Z")
I wasn’t able to reproduce the exact problem with your search phrase but I very often get search results that are completely unrelated to what I am searching for. It can be really irrelevant and kind of nonsensical. ---
**Author:** ![twelve25oh9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@twelve25oh9](https://community.brave.app/u/twelve25oh9)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/11 "2022-12-11T13:29:54Z")
One word search (“dog”) using brave browser address bar returned exactly what you’d expect and want from such a search. Repeating my originally mentioned search terms (“How to get truck dog enough exercise”) using Google as my default search engine and typing query into brave browser address bar returned very satisfactory results, more so than those returned by brave search, because they were more specifically relevant. ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-with-search-this-kind-of-nonsensical-result-happens-frequently-i-want-to-use-brave-exclusively-but-often-find-myself-going-back-to-search-in-safari/451447/12 "2022-12-12T19:28:17Z")
I’ll have to reach out to the Search team about this. When I perform that exact search using Brave Search in the address bar, I get the number of and types of results you would expect. Appreciate your patience here.