Interview with Brave Search

Neeva, DDG, or Startpage, cannot be real competition, even though they could have nice features worth copying. Google and Microsoft will never be scared of them because they can be strangled at any time, simply by limiting or throttling access to their APIs... A tenant cannot really challenge their landlord, and that's why at Brave we went with the... See more

Appending Reddit to every query would not work for the majority of searches, however, it works very well on certain types of queries. There is a tendency, for myself included, to understate the large number of use-cases a search engine covers, and it has to cover them all.

The barrage of crap we see on the Web is a direct consequence of the current economic model, where Google sucks all the money from the space, leaving only spoils to content creators. If there is no good money to be made on a single article, people will be forced to make up for this with 100 worse ones, exacerbating the problem.