Brave Search has released a new feature that gives you a way to create or apply custom filters that change the way its results are ranked. It is called “Goggles” and could potentially help uncover sources that you might not find immediately on traditional search engines like Google.
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A year ago, the company released the beta version for a search engine—and now, on its first anniversary, Brave Search reached the milestone of 2,5 billion queries, peaking at 14,1 million queries in a single day.
Brave Search has released some demos for users to try out, including ones that prioritize posts from smaller tech blogs and filter out posts from the 1,000 most-viewed sites on the web . There’s even a Goggle for excluding posts from Pinterest — because Brave clearly knows the frustration of trying to find an image and get a Pinterest post without a source. Brave says these Goggles are for demonstration purposes only, and developers can expand on them or branch out .
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While Brave says its engine, which is independent of entities like Google and Bing, “has no editorial bias,” that doesn’t change the fact that there are inherent biases in all algorithms. Goggles aims to mitigate that fact by allowing you to shape those biases.
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In April, Brave launched a new Discussions feature, which began eliminating the need for users to add “Reddit” to the end of searches — it now displays results from Reddit for related searches.
Source of information: theverge.com
