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> Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling
Christian J
post Mar 3 2021, 08:09 PM
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brav..._search_engine/

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"What we're trying to do is different, it's not based on crawling the web," Eich explained. "...Trying to crawl the whole web, it's not going to work. What Cliqz worked on..that's an anonymous query log aggregator, and a partial click log aggregator, to see when you don't convert on the search ad you leave the results page and you find the better results through some number of clicks."

Gathering that sort of query and click data requires consent, said Eich, and Brave isn't going to force Brave users to participate. But Cliqz started working on this and has a data set they called "the Human Web," and that's now the basis of Brave Search.


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Brave's vision of search is based on "an open and collaborative system by which a community, or a single user, can create sets of rules and filters, called Goggles, to define the space which a search engine can pull results from," the paper explains.

"Instead of a single ranking algorithm, we could have as many as needed, overcoming the biases that a single actor (the search engine) embeds into the results."
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post Mar 4 2021, 01:21 AM
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Is that supposed to be good? blink.gif
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post Mar 4 2021, 12:21 PM
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I have no idea. Sounds strange to promise "no tracking" when it indeed relies on tracking to build the database.
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post Mar 4 2021, 12:51 PM
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It also sounds as bubble. Why would I want to find only the pages most people read? They usually aren't interesting at all.
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