I started using Brave Search after DDG CEO went on an insane twitter tirade and decided to censor his search. I’ve been generally happy since I’ve switched but I’ve noticed that your search results have a massive leftist bias. Even more so than Google search. They’re quite disgusting really.
Here’s how your search is libeling The Gateway Pundit, a popular conservative site, as “fake news”:
This bias is not isolated or a rare incident. This search is labeling pretty much every major conservative site with a “FAKE NEWS” label. Why? How come The New York Times, the biggest purveyor of fake news there is, is not labeled the same way?
1.) That is likely wikipedia feedback mechanism and nothing to do with brave search. As you say, it will need to be tweaked slightly to avoid the slander purposefully done by wikipedia editors.
I agree. I wonder if there is a way to turn that off or stop displaying Wikipedia as the source on the right side of displayed results. Sorry, I don’t know what that position on a search results page is called! lol
If anyone knows of any other sites that at least attempt to present the bias rating in an unbiased way, please let me know! Always looking for this type information.
That will be not good. If we exclude certain situtions like this (gateway pundit one), the wikipedia feedback thing seen on brave search or other search engines are pretty good. Like searching for brave browser, car, bicycle, bag, cotton, silk etc. Eg,
I just meant removing that right side display. How does wikipedia get that position anyway? They are listed in the search results too but also displayed predominantly on the right side. Why isn’t any other search result in the list displayed there? Sheesh. Guess I’m going to have to go down a rabbit hole and find out about this stuff! lol
Anyway, that is the only thing I was referencing removing. Not manipulating anything in the result list itself.
Something interesting. This is how the wikipedia page is displayed in Firefox using DDG. No “feedback” displayed. Using Chrome with Google, displays the same results.
If you use Brave Search in Firefox, the display is the same as posted above by the OP. So, this indicates to me that the “feedback” portion looks like something that can be enabled/disabled in the search engine itself. I would prefer it be disabled! Not a good look for Brave to have that functionality displayed by default.
Also, when using DDG in Brave Search, it displays per image below. Wikipedia predominant at the top of the page but at least wikipedia’s feedback is not displayed. Although being so predominant the first “fake news” line is hard to miss. I would prefer this not display either. I tend to find this a frequent editorial action at wikipedia of displaying negative information in the first few lines for conservative sites vs non-conservative sites although they deny they do this. lol Seems to be more predominant with less known sites, so maybe it has something to do with the quality of the editors for those type sites
Example of how wikipedia presents far-left vs far-right content.
Far left fake news:
Far right fake news:
Even wikipedia’s Definition of fake news on their List of fake news websites has references to what many conservatives would consider lean left or far left sites and no lean right. I would think to conservatives, this would indicate a left-leaning bias and promotion of the left by the wikipedia editors.
I wish there was a media bias rating site out there that would predominately display an unbiased metric of a news sources’ factual information reporting on the political spectrum and also have an unbiased metric displaying a news sources’ editorial content on the political spectrum. I think some sites, whether left or right, get a bad rep not for their factual reporting but for their editorial content.
There are only three usable search engines - Brave search, Metagr, yandex. There are others too like Gigablast, mojeek etc, but they are practically unusable.
I observed a test using specific terms (that will remain nameless to avoid controversy) that showed categorically the Brave search gave the same censored results as Google. Qwant and resulthunter did not.
These type of test are meaningless currently (as of march 2022). Result hunter itself gets its result from bing/google. It only makes sure to boots certain news sites over other news sites related to a particular political faction. Direct quote from the founder “Simply put, you can’t beat the size and complexity of Google’s search index nor the sophistication and relevancy of their algorithms. All of that is a fancy way of saying that I use Google’s index and IMPROVE IT”
I think you can block that element. Or at least it seems to be working for me.
Enter a search
Right click on the page displayed
Select Brave -->Block element
Select the element you want to block and click (be careful not to select everything!)
Click create
The wiki feedback and wiki article link elements are removed. Works even after I close the browser and reload.
Of course, I have no idea how to reverse this! Anyone know or have some suggestions?
Edit: Display looks like image below. Tried with multiple sites, so I don’t think it is a one-off. I left the profiles… I like that! My decision if I what to view at any of the sites listed!
Our only hope is Brave Search imho I’ve tried all the so called alternatives. The first week I had Brave Search, it was great. Then it changed. Even Goolag is better now.
Sir, dont you dare question the ministry of truth! You are only allowed to believe what the government and mainstream media tells you!
It is very dangerous for humanity to look at everything other then mentioned before sources!
We live in a time in where news get spun to fit a certain agenda/narrative! And actual true and factual journalism is shunned if it doesnt mirror what mainstream media wants you to believe.
1984 just called, it wants its story back. Sad but feels more and more true.
