Should I be worried about this development?

So far, I’ve tried Stract and 4get, and I’m not impressed with how limited they are - they’re not accurate, and no image and video search is what turns me away from them.

Metasearch engines like SearXNG aren’t that impressive, their results have too many filler results. My experience with manually tweaking their search also did not go well. Any alternatives with good defaults?

    • kadu@lemmy.world
      343·
      3 months ago

      I’d rather walk into my local library and ask my librarian for a prompt, then spend 3 hours searching an old encyclopedia for the answer, than ever resolving a domain owned by Brave. Thanks.

          • Ginger666@lemmy.worldEnglish
            36·
            3 months ago

            OK, like I said above, I’m not using their browser. How would any of this affect me using a website?

            • hersh@literature.cafe
              6·
              3 months ago

              I’m not entirely clear on which (anti-)features are only in the browser vs in the web site as well. It sounds like they are steering people toward their commercial partners like Binance across the board.

              Personally I find the cryptocurrency stuff off-putting in general. Not trying to push my opinion on you though. If you don’t object to any of that stuff, then as far as I know Brave is fine for you.

    • SlippiHUD@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      The brave browser has AI already, it’s a matter of time until their search engine does too.

      Frankly I trust duckduckgo more than brave with that data.

      I also do not have any better suggestions.

      • Ginger666@lemmy.worldEnglish
        213·
        3 months ago

        I’m not using the brave browser, just the website.

        What is the issue with this?

        How can an ai summarizer online get anything from my phone?

          • Ginger666@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            3 months ago

            It summarizes the search results???

            It doesn’t do it for every search. The first searches i tried were things like: “why are people on the internet so stupid” or “how to explain complex things to idiots for dummies”

            Its prolly riddled with errors, but the point is that this is part of their website, so anything it uses is on their servers.