How good is Brave Search Goggles?

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I have started to try Brave Search again after they finally have independently index their web search and notice about their new feature of Goggles.

Goggles enable anyone, be it individuals or a community, to alter the ranking of Brave search by using a set of instructions (rules and filters). Anyone can create, apply, or extend a Goggle. Essentially Goggles act as a custom re-ranking on top of Brave’s search index.

This means that, instead of a single ranking, Brave Search can offer an almost limitless number of ranking options. While Brave Search doesn’t have editorial biases, all search engines have some level of intrinsic bias due to underlying data (the Web) and some algorithmic choices of features to select. Goggles allows for users to counter such intrinsic biases in the ranking, and also to create custom search experiences that couldn’t be covered by an all-purpose search engine such as Brave Search.

I hadn’t fully tried it out but that feature alone made me interested of maybe trying Brave Search once more and I hadn’t seem much videos about it which I was surprised with how highly praised Brave is

Here’s their Github of the quick guide to Goggles for anyone that’s curious to try it

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Have you tested this with Brave Browser on Android? My results were uninteresting.
When I tried Brave Search using the Goggles in Mull Browser, I got the results I expected.

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I have issues with this search engine (especially when not using English), but it’s still comfortable enough to use for finding something simple, and it’s my main search engine on Android. However, in the browser, I prefer using Ecosia, and I feel like it’s the best option for me. The best part about Brave Search is that it’s independent from other search engines, in contrast to Ecosia (uses Bing) and Startpage (uses Google). We should support this project, as in the future, it has the potential to become something like Gecko in the world of search engines.