Brave Search beta
Previous related discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26328758" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26328758</a><p>If things go as planned, this may become a paid, ad-free, zero-tracking search engine. I can&#x27;t express how exciting this is to me.<p>Over the past few years, I have made several attempts to replace Google Search with DuckDuckGo. But they have all failed and I always ended up changing the default search engine back to Google. I mean, DDG worked fine for 95% of time, but the remaining 5% failure often led to some extreme frustration that I just couldn&#x27;t stand. I would imagine Brave Search to have similar issues, at least in the beginning, but they did something smart to make it less painful:<p>&gt; Brave Search beta is based on an independent index, the first of its kind. However, for some queries, Brave can anonymously check our search results against third-party results, and mix them on the results page.<p>So, if I am not satisfied with Brave&#x27;s result, Google&#x27;s result is on the same page, or just one click away.