Although I hate the Brave browser, the search engine is the most useful of the others. It gives me the most correct results compared to the others, even it sometimes ignores the quality resources.
I wonder your opinion about the search engine. Do you have any negative ones?
It's fine. Not a fan of the AI garbage generator at the top. For obscure queries Big G still returns the best results and this will not change any time soon.
Something else that won't change: If you're not paying for a service, then that service will be trying to monetize you in some other way and will therefore have an incentive to spy on you.
I use brave as default search on Firefox, and search in incognito by default. On mobile, brave doesn't save the "disable AI" setting so the slop is there for every search, not to mention slowing down the process.
I really want to switch to brave's search engine from ddg (mainly cuz brave has its own index while ddg uses Bing's). But I have a rlly nice theme on ddg, which makes me feel rlly comfortable. Sure, I can put up user themes/ user scripts whatever for brave search too, but I'm not getting the time to do all that.
By default it enables sending usage metrics and local search results which they claim to be anonymous.
Also unlike other search engines it doesn't have parameters for search query which can be used set your preferences, thus avoiding hustle to configure settings everytime.(in cases like delete cookies when browser closed and incognito mode).
I use it regularly because it is so far the best free privacy respecting search. But holy shit the lack of features (can't even do boolean search) is insane
Can you use the brave search engine from other browsers? (Is it a proxy for any other search engine?)
I'm expecting a negative, but a fella can dream.
Full disclosure: currently using StartPage and reasonably happy. StartPage is a proxy for Google as far as I can tell, although I've seen people say (on Reddit) it refers to Bing too.