Brave search is crap. It feels like DDG when it first launched. I want to like it, but the index it uses is old. I often get links that don't work.
I use Brave and ddg (depending on browser).
Brave is only worse when it comes to location specific searches, otherwise for general searches I'm agnostic between the two.
Still fallback to !g bangs on every couple of days.
I've gotten several results were the link is no longer valid.