I live in a relatively small country (Portugal) and sometimes i need to search for a local telecommunications website, and can’t do it without searching like this “telecom portugal”. However if i search for it in google chrome for example it automatically gives me the correct website probably utilizing my location.
So i tried using brave browser but with google as my search engine and still same results as with brave search, so i am assuming it’s something to do with my browser settings, just not sure what specific setting it is.
These are my shields settings and privacy settings respectively:
I guess that works, but i feel like it is a partial solution no?
If i still need to do a specific search field i would just do my previous solution just adding “portugal” to any local search i need.
Is there really not a way for brave search to provide results based on my location?
Also, i am still not sure if this is a brave search or a brave browser issue
In general, search engine results no longer rank results in keeping with stated search criteria.
Instead, search engine results (without extra criteria-refining and ranking efforts made by the searching party - the search engine user) are ranked by popularity . . . as search engine developers seek popularity.
The site:pt specific refinement, thankfully applies focus - an opportunity to restrict search engine results to your area of interest.
Otherwise, a lot of art goes into beating/engineering search engines’ results . . . into what you were looking for.
Also i have just one more question about the specific refinement, by using site:pt, will this only show results with corresponding URLs ending with .pt or is this just related to restricting the area of interest but has nothing to do with website termination?
