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Brave Search introduces Discussions to add real-human conversations to search results - Ghacks

Last updated Thursday, April 21, 2022 10:10 ET , Source: NewsService

Brave Search, a search engine operated by the maker of the Brave Browser, is showing content from user discussions for certain queries now.

Brave Software acquired the search engine technology developed by Tailcat in 2021. Tailcat was originally developed by Cliqz, a company Mozilla had invested in. Tailcat was rebranded to Brave Search, and was set as the default search engine in Brave in some regions.

Brave Search is available as a web search engine that anyone may use. It works similarly to other search engines, but still has a beta tag.

The new Discussions section is added as a block to the search results. A search for "how to upgrade to Windows 11" returns articles, video content, and also the new discussions section. The returned results were not matching the search query for this particular result. Instead of providing answers to the question, all four visible results asked whether it was worth upgrading to Windows 11. Discussions needs finetuning to return better results in Discussions.

Brave Software notes that Discussions is bringing "real human conversations (and answers)" to the search results pages.

With Discussions, search results on Brave Search are augmented with actual conversations related to the query, pulled from popular forum sites like Reddit. This allows users to easily see what the community is saying about a topic, rather than just reading content curated by websites.

Discussions is an attempt to add value to the search results by adding another...



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