Brave picture search is inaccurate

[Saoiray]

Hey there @Idea . Thanks for sharing this. Just so you know, the search is not manipulated as you’re suggesting. The issue here is that Brave Search is still fairly new and is working on getting better results. It seems like it assumed you didn’t spell penicillin correctly and offered results there.

I’d like to refer you to two replies that was made on the same Topic, both by people from Brave. I think they might offer more information on what’s going on.

Results seem politically skewed

Brave doesn’t censor, and Brave doesn’t inject bias into Search results. We go far beyond paying lip-service to this commitment too; we’re developing Goggles to prevent this issue. What’s Happening? The query Peter Santilli returns one set of results, while the query Pete Santilli (note the spelling of the first name) returns another. Mr. Santilli’s podcast uses the “Pete” variant, along with numerous other sites. As such, “Peter” may be expected to yield less-relevant results (without the eng…

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Results seem politically skewed

This thread was brought to my attention, and I think it’s worth answering. My name is Josep M. Pujol, I’m responsible for Brave Search. Prior to joining Brave, I spent 6 years building the eventual foundation of Brave Search at Cliqz. Brave Search does not censor. The fact that some expected results aren’t returned is not the result of censorship; it’s the result of search-engine-development being hard, and forever a work in progress. There is some confusion between censorship and bias. Brave …