I’ve been using Brave Search supplemented by Startpage for the past 2+ years. When I search for something, I want to get results for credible webpages, not a summary of unknown quality. I liked the previous AI inclusion because it was instant, didn’t take up much space, and I could quickly navigate to the websites referenced in it, but with the new feature it takes up more space, is slower, and not really what I want out of a search engine.
As soon as the feature was rolled out I disabled it in settings, but the AI button stays visible, I get autocomplete specifically for Answer with AI and I get frequent notifications to try out the new AI feature. An opt-out toggle should not mean that I still am pestered to use the feature I opted out of.
This is really annoying, and I’m probably going to end up switching to Startpage or SearXNG or something.
Some images (opted out of AI features):
I’m trying SearXNG at the moment. Seems better and faster then all others so far.
Before that I tried gibiru.com and mojeek.com but wasn’t satisfied with results or indexes.
do you remember any of the queries for which you were not satisfied? We’re always looking to improve
sorry, most are too private to post them here, but an exception was:
MySQL RAND
I expected to find the actual manual page from dev.mysql.com , but it wasn’t even in the first few pages.
I just started and I’m so much more satisfied than I have been with other non-Googles.
I have always wanted to like DDG but their results weren’t awesome for me (and it didn’t help that I hate their name, but wasn’t a deciding factor).