Goggles without an effect

Brave Search Search Support
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I was trying Goggles functionality out, but things were not working for me.

To be concrete, I copied verbatim what you use as “News from the Right” Goggle - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/allsides-news/brave-goggles/main/right.goggles - to my own github - https://gist.github.com/mrscooter/e17e377da2178affcdc1f393dc98c4f4

Then I created my own Goggles here https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover?q=Europe%20migration

I tried query for “Europe migration” in three different Goggle setting:

  1. Using your version of "News from the Right
  2. Using my version
  3. without any goggles

In spite of my expectations, case (1.) and case (2.) provided significantly different results. Moreover case (2.) was almost similar to the case (3.), which suggests that no Goggles were employed during case (2.), i.e., search using my own Goggles.

The same happened when I used your Search API from within my python code.

I attach screenshots of respective search results.

Many thanks for your help.

Brave-made goggles (1)
Brave-made goggles (1)1606×910 194 KB

My goggles (2)
My goggles (2)1348×936 224 KB

No goggles (3)
No goggles (3)1348×936 189 KB

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@nicnajder

Not a Goggles expert, but I believe that you would benefit by adding downrank entries, two examples:

  • $downrank,site=newrepublic.com
  • $downrank=2,site=dailykos.com

Also, depending upon the quality of your search criteria (being specific, helps; being general, not so much when trying to refine what will result) - and then the attending result of the Brave Search Engine looking for your criteria . . . a Goggles filter may, or may not, apply to such results.

First, there is a search, and then results, and then filters are applied to those results.

Perhaps, also Disable both of the following, in Brave Search Settings:

  • AI
  • Discussions
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Thanks for your answer, but the problem I describe is that the same goggles work differently when provided as “my own” and when provided as “Brave predefined”. This leads me to the question whether my goggles are applied at all.