
It looks like Google Search has jumped the shark. I can find information more easily using Brave search than I can with Google.
By default when you open up a new tab or do a search in the URL space it uses Brave search. At first, I started switching the search to Google but then I got frustrated when searching wasn’t giving me the results I wanted. I decided to try out Brave Search to see if it was any better. To my surprise, it was better.
I have tried many search engines in my life. The reason I am sharing this is that I know how to use a search engine. The competition is Bing, and DuckDuckGo and to me, those are worse search engines than Brave Search. I tried to use those but they wouldn’t show information that I knew existed from using Google. I went back to using Google after using those because they did not work for me.
In my last post, I used Brave Search to see if I could find an article that would quickly summarize the difference between Brave Leo AI and other AIs that I have used. Instead of showing me an article the first thing it did was show me a prompt result and a very detailed breakdown of them both. When I used Leo the response was shorter but still useful. I don’t know about you, but most people want a short response to a question, not a long one. So if someone asks what is “better” then I would say for most people Leo AI in Brave is a better answer than the Brave search AI.
Now the AI answer is just part of it. The other part is that you get bombarded with ads when you search for things that have popular search terms. This is annoying. It is one of the reasons that I no longer use Google search. This also meant that starting last year I stopped worrying about my Google Search console rankings. It wasn’t worth my time to worry about my rank when people were using social media more than Google search.
If you aren’t using Brave, give it a spin. You might be pleasantly surprised how fast and capable it is. No one is paying me to say this, it has just been a rewarding software to use and I want to let others know as well.