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#Google ‘s changing website titles with the chatbots, surely #Microsoft will follow suit…reduced to using #BraveSearch of all things

Nicholas A. Ferrell 4d ago

Re; Search Engine Shortcuts in Firefox

James at James' Coffee Blog published a good post in 2024 titled Search engine shortcuts in Firefox, which regular New Leaf Journal readers will know is a topic near and dear to my heart. James demonstrated how to add search engine shortcuts to Firefox using the search box (which, readers should note, is distinct from running searches in the omnibar address bar (HT to yoasif for the correction; see source in Firefox docs) and provided a nice tutorial on how to assign and use shortcuts to […]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/search-engine-shortcuts-articles-03-18-26/

[Reply] Re; Search Engine Shortcuts in Firefox

Responding to a good post on search engine shortcuts in Firefox with links to my own articles on web browser search engine shortcuts.

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Michael Martinez

6d ago

The #SEO community keeps confusing itself about what AI-enhanced search is and how it works by throwing around all the pseudoscientific bullshit that bloggers concoct from reading patents and/or research papers they clearly don't understand.

You can reasonably infer that someone doesn't understand a concept if their explanation consists of quoting sections of the technical documents they purport to have read. If they cannot explain it in their own words then they cannot explain it.

AI-enhanced search is STILL using traditional search. That never went away.

The AI summaries at the top of search results are just selecting texts to comment on from the search results. And there was ALWAYS a query fan-out happening in the background. THAT is not new - Google didn't invent it and they've been doing it for DECADES.

The generative AI models that are writing the summaries for search results ARE following some rules (call them "base prompts" provided by the search engines themselves). So your query is rewritten into a suitable prompt for the generative AI model that incorporates those "base prompt" rules.

As a Web marketer, you absolutely need to continue optimizing for search. You want to earn natural authority and brand value for a Website. Buying links from blog posting networks is not likely to achieve either of those goals.

You cannot optimize for a generative AI model. You MUST optimize for the search results that the generative model is using to construct its summaries.

#searchengines #bing #google #bravesearch #search #ai #aioverviews

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Fossery Tech

Mar 1

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Brave Search API unveils Place Search endpoint for detailed map queries:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/brave-search-api-unveils-place-search-endpoint-for-detailed-map-queries/

Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Stops-Go-Projects

Wireshark 4.6.4 Updates Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs:
https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-4-updates-protocol-and-capture-file-support-fixes-more-bugs

Portainer 2.39 LTS brings Fleet Governance Policies, alerting, and shared Git credentials:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/portainer-2-39-lts-brings-fleet-governance-policies-alerting-and-shared-git-credentials/

Deno 2.7 brings stable Temporal API, Windows on ARM support & better Node.js compatibility:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/2/deno-2-7-brings-stable-temporal-api-windows-on-arm-support-and-better-node-js-compatibility/

GNU Octave 11 Open-Source Scientific Programming Language Officially Released:
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-octave-11-open-source-scientific-programming-language-officially-released

GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Gawk-5.4-Released

AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims To Be The Successor To Opus:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMedia-OAC-Open-Audio-Codec

FosseryWeb page-builders progress report:
FosseryWeb Min support implemented, and the first cheatsheet generated using the tool is now online on the beta versions of the two sites, so the tool finally made it into production! Also ironed out quite a few bugs and unhandled edge cases yesterday.
https://fosseryweb.codeberg.page/@beta/cheatsheets/java/lists.html
https://fosseryweb-min.codeberg.page/@beta/cheatsheets/java/lists.html

FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2025-Status-Report

FreeBSD 14.4-RC1 Adds Emacs, Vim & More To DVD Images:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.4-RC1-Released

Genode OS 26.02 Halfway Done Migrating From GitHub To Codeberg:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Genode-OS-26.02
(Yay, Codeberg keeps winning!)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #BraveSearch #Intel #Wireshark #Portainer #Deno #GNU #GNUOctave #GNUGawk #OAC #FosseryWeb #FreeBSD #GenodeOS #AudioCodec #Containerization #Networking #JavaScript #OS #OperatingSystem #Programming #Development #Cheatsheet #ProgrammingCheatsheet #JavaCheatsheet #FosseryTech

Brave Search API unveils Place Search endpoint for detailed map queries

Brave Search API launches Place Search, enabling apps to run detailed map queries across 200 million locations with improved speed and a new Explore Mode.

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z_4narchist Feb 21

...welp, i missed this critical 2025 memo in the dumpster fire whirlwinds, but i am now officially dumping brave into the #bds bonfire due to clear #aws #genocide and #masssurveillance connections:

"#BraveSearch API in the new #AIAgents and Tools category of #AWSMarketplace. Customers can now use [#amazon/s] AWS #Marketplace to easily discover, buy, and deploy AI agents solutions, including #Brave’s Search API, using their AWS accounts, accelerating agent and agentic workflow development.

The Brave Search #API helps organizations supply their #AI #LLMs with real-time data, power agentic search, train foundation models, and create search-enabled #software, and is for building #applications that benefit from having access to the Web, going beyond the static knowledge of AI models.

“By offering the Brave Search API in AWS Marketplace, we’re providing customers with a streamlined way to access the only independent search API in the market, helping them buy and deploy agent solutions faster and more efficiently,” said Brian Brown, Chief Business Officer at #BraveSoftware...."

((*ive personally already moved to #monocles.de for now*))

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Paradox Feb 4

@kttrickster Как надоели уже все эти проекты поисковые, которые что-то там обещают, а по итогу сами живут пару лет 😔 То серверов у них нет, они берут чужие, которые один за другим мрут, отключаются, а ещё индекс … много кто берёт от крупных поисковиков навроде яндекса, гугла и бинга, только тогда непонятна вообще суть затеи и чем они отличаются от оных.

С моей точки зрения, поисковики всё больше и больше утрачивают своё место в принципе как класс в интернете. Сейчас актуальнее использовать #BraveSearch или #Яндекс_Алиса, которые выдают готовые ответы, но непосредственно со ссылкой на источник.

Что до проекта:
очередная игрушка, которая поживёт-поживёт, не собирая ничего кроме отрицательных отзывов, и автор забросит сей чудный проект. Мне это напоминает бесконечные дистрибутивы Ликунс, которые отличаются от оригинала только косметикой и набором ПО из коробки — с нескучными обоями.

H@R0👨🏻‍💻Dec 17

#Zed 裏面沒法用 http 類型的MCP了，#exa MCP現在是沒法用，暫時可以用 #BraveSearch 代替，至少能用

Matthias Schüssler Nov 30

Die #Top5 diese Woche im Blog:
5️⃣ #BraveSearch schiesst einen Ehrentreffer gegen Google: https://blog.clickomania.ch/2025/11/28/search-brave-com-review/
4️⃣ Google Websuche für Fortgeschrittene: https://blog.clickomania.ch/2025/11/26/google-suchresultate-scrapen/
3️⃣ Sinnvoll – der Parallel-Betrieb von Apps: https://blog.clickomania.ch/2025/11/27/windows-android-und-mac-eine-app-mehrfach-ausfuehren/
2️⃣ #Airpods – keine Hörbücher und Podcasts mehr verpennen: https://blog.clickomania.ch/2025/11/24/airpods-pro-medien-beim-einschlafen-anhalten-review/
1️⃣ #AirVPN – Das #VPN nicht nur für #NordVPN-Abtrünnige: https://blog.clickomania.ch/2025/11/25/airvpn-review/ #clickomaniach

Brave Search schiesst einen Ehrentreffer gegen Google

Bei den Suchmaschinen stinkt niemand gegen den grossen Dominator an? Falsch: Zwar muss sich der Datenschutz-orientierte Konkurrent in zwei Fällen geschlagen geben. Doch beim dritten

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Luminex Nov 29

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2019048/braves-search-engine-is-now-totally-independent.html
#BraveSearch #BraveSearchEngine #Search #SearchEngine

Brave's search engine is now totally independent from Google and Bing

Brave has migrated its video and image search away from Bing and Google, making Brave Search entirely private, the company says.

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Matthias Schüssler Nov 28

Kein Konkurrent kann #Google Paroli bieten? Diese gefühlte Wahrheit stimmt nur teilweise: Ein Test von #BraveSearch zeigt, dass die #alternativeSuchmaschine in einzelnen Fällen bessere Resultate liefert als der Branchenprimus.
https://blog.clickomania.ch/2025/11/28/search-brave-com-review/ #clickomaniach

Brave Search schiesst einen Ehrentreffer gegen Google

Bei den Suchmaschinen stinkt niemand gegen den grossen Dominator an? Falsch: Zwar muss sich der Datenschutz-orientierte Konkurrent in zwei Fällen geschlagen geben. Doch beim dritten

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