We are in Brave's search results!

Fuck Brave and fucks its owner Brendan Eich.

Don't promote that despicable company in any way.

Why what's up with them? Asking cuz I don't know.
- Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.
  
  Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.
  
  And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)
- As a piece of software, nothing. It’s an open source browser, and has an added bonus of having many privacy settings on by default. Not even firefox can say the same, it comes with telemetry, pocket and whatnot out of the box.
  
  But there are some fair criticisms about the company and its administration. For example, there was an incident years ago when you signed on a crypto exchange, it would swap the sign on link for their own referral link. They claimed this was an error and quickly patched it, but I don’t buy it.
  
  You’ll quickly notice that a lot of people on lemmy passionately hate brave. So expect a strong bias and, as a result, truths but overblown, half truths and misinformation. Don’t ignore what they say but double check them.
- Read the links of the comment you are replying to.
While I agree, but i tried Brave Search for a few weeks, and it seemed pretty good.

I wouldnt use Brave Browser, because Vivaldi is there (if you need Chromium.) But for a search engine which is free? DuckDuckGo maybe?

P.S. Kagi search is pretty good if you are willing to pay.
- DDG is so bad in results though it makes not using a search engine seem like a solid alternative. I remember that research from a few months ago where they compared Google, Bing and DDG to do statistical analysis of if and how much Google's search results have been getting worse in recent years.
  
  Result:
  
  Google did get worse.
  
  However, Bing and DDG got worser, faster.
  
  The real conclusion was that SEO spam has found ways to optimize that is no longer easy to exclude for search providers. Hence all search is getting shit pretty quickly.
- A lot of people are complaining about Kagi using Brave as a backend but the alternatives aren't much better. Both Google and Microsoft are BDS for example.
nuh uh
Wait so the same guy owns brave is now firefoxes CEO?
- No, the opposite
- no. the old ceo owns brave.

This is exactly what comes to mind when some fedi people want to block all the search engines.

Good answers from real people are what drove everyone to start appending “Reddit” to the end of searches. The rest of the results are SEO trash.

I’d like to see a lot of that traffic move to lemmy and other fedi stuff and I think letting indexers do their thing is positive.

Odd that it's an obscure Basque instance though. Wonder why it shows that instead of something like world or ml.

The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy's not real optimized to cope with the load -- most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.
Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post's home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.

Kagi has a "Fediverse forums" lens now as well.

I'm seeing Lemmy posts on Google results as well.

I see Lemmy on Google too. It surprised me at first but I like that it get indexed.

why not use vivaldi if you have to use a chromium-based browser

Why care which browser they use?
It's firefox (well, librewolf) + vivaldi is closed-source.
- Fuck you spez!
- It's a little disingenuous so say that "Vivaldi is closed source" and leave it at that. The vast majority of their browser is built on open-source code:
  
  https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
  
  Only a small portion (~5%) of their bespoke UI code is closed. The vast majority of their source is published.
  
  Obviously whether the small portion of the code they withhold is important to you is a matter of your own to decide, but I feel this was important to clarify.
Why Vivaldi?
- Because it's fucking awesome. Here's why I used* to use it:
  
  Built in email client
  
  Built in RSS reader.
  
  Themes and customisable UI (vertical tabs, bottom tags, tab previews, tab stacking)
  
  Built in ad blocker
  
  Sidebar with Mastodon, RSS, mail, translate, etc
  
  *I use Floorp now cos I wanna support Mozilla/Firefox by upping the browser share numbers but Vivaldi is the best Chromium-based browser by far.

.eus.

.eus is the top-level domain for the Basque language. The abbreviation eus comes from the Basque endonym euskara, meaning "Basque language".

TIL

Here's the link for anyone who wants a quick check - https://search.brave.com/search?q=mastodon+android+clients

it would probablyhelop if the search prompt is not written by a dyslexic... shakes head

Irony that you could drape over yourself and go to sleep with
- My excuse being the lemmy android app message editor being bugged, getting out of sync when deleting characters.
dude you write verbs like 'shakes head' in your comments.
- that's not a verb, that's an emote. Considering you chose the dumbest possible username for lemmy, I am not surprised you wouldn't understand that.
  
  Also: There's a substantial difference to you searching for "anroid" clients and making a post based on those search results.