’ duckduckgo.com/?q=youngbizz&t=brave ’
and in the brave search bar
’ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dgençbizz%26t%3Dbrave&t=brave&ia=web ’
I don’t know why, and I haven’t found the same error elsewhere, although there are similar problems.
@ozturu68 if you never have seen the bunch of articles going around the internet over the years, search engines pay browsers to have them listed as default search engines. So when you go to Settings → Search Engines and see all of the search engines there by default, those all typically paid to be listed.
Where this matters is that each one is put in with a referral code associated with it. So when you do the search it has that one bit of code, kind of like you’re seeing, which is telling that search engine that the search was done by a person using the browser -and- that the search engine had been a default option. Whichever browser you’re using then can get some money from the search engine.
You’re right that others won’t necessarily show it in the URL like DDG is doing. Each makes their links and all a different way. And many will just internalize the referral but not have it show in the URL that loads.
but I have already changed my default search engine on brave to brave search and I encounter this problem not in every search, but only when I search for ‘genç bizz’.
@ozturu68 it seems I did not explain well enough. Let’s take a look here. In my screenshot below, do you see everything listed under Search Engines? These are all the “defaults.” Brave included them on the list “by default.” You didn’t have to manually enter them or anything.
If you click the edit button (the pencil icon) on any of them, you will see the URL listed can’t be edited. And just about every single one of them will contain a referral code:
So when you say you switched the default, all you did was go from one default search engine to the other. Pretty much if you see them on the list of Search Engines then it means they are paying browsers to be listed there. This has been normal for many years and is done by default by practically every web browser.
In comparison, everything listed under Site Search would be search engines we manually entered later. We can edit the URL on those and unless we chose to put in referral codes, they would obviously be without:
With the above said, if you don’t want Brave to be paid when you use the search from the address bar or something agitates you in seeing the URL, then you could just go to Site Search and add DuckDuckGo yourself. Have it set to be like below. Once you add that, you can always hit the hamburger (three dot) menu next to it and make it your Default Search, at which point it temporarily gets listed under Search Engines until you make something else your default.
Just to reiterate, the links we see is because DuckDuckGo changes their URL as a result of knowing how a person did the search.
Let’s use your search term three different ways: Genç Bizz
If I first go to https://duckduckgo.com/ and type it in: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Gen%C3%A7+Bizz&ia=web
If I use Brave’s default entry to type it in = https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Gen%C3%A7+Bizz&t=brave&ia=web
If I use my manual entry into Site Search = https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Gen%C3%A7+Bizz&ia=web
And some of the extra bits in there are also because you have a space in there. If you type GençBizz instead of Genç Bizz you’ll notice the URL change, as it’s handling how to look for things and is also coding for the space.
And if my search term was http://duckduckgo.com/?q=youngbizz&t=brave like you showed in the one screenshot…typing it into their search engine rather than to go to it as a link, then they code it differently in their URL to indicate that, to break it apart.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=youngbizz&t=brave (the search term) becomes https://duckduckgo.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dyoungbizz%26t%3Dbrave&ia=web (the URl to the search result)
thanks, I think I understand now
