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None of the examples explained here impress me (with maybe the exception of Goggles by brave search).

- The first example is not much more than Google with a styling chrome extension

- The second doesnt bring anything more than Google when you are searching about webcontent. Some ideas on filters are interesting but this is not user friendly

- You is powered by AI, so it is basicaly giving not what you want except when you ask for the general case (the case Google works pretty well for)

- Andi is a chatbot. Which is basically Google + only the first answer

Brave Search Goggles, (what most people call collections, what Pinterest calls a board, what Twitter call List) is for me what is going to be the real innovation of search Engine. They are a way to bring collaboration to enrich content, but nobody has cracked the UX to make it work yet

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Did you try Andi search? It returns full search results alongside the answer and has full preview content for many of the websites, and the content is from the websites not Google or Bing's snippets. It's completely different to the way you described it.

My biggest problem with it is that the alpha version still has errors and is weak for searches like local businesses. Also, big problem is I'm in Australia and everything is in imperial units. Having said that, however, I've been using it since it became available a few weeks ago and it has already improved a surprising amount. And the question answering if you ask specific-enough questions can blow your mind.

It feels like the engine understand well the query, but for test searches it didnt show better results than Google, it actually gave me almost the same answers. So if they use their own index thats pretty good. But not the Next Google

You might be missing the point. Try a difficult question instead of a regular web search. Something like this. "Why did Twitter add Elon Musk to its board of directors, and what impact did that have on twitter's share price?"

Then click on "View in Reader" on the results. This is not like Google dude.

People on the Discord are trying crazy questions like that and reporting what it does good or bad on. It screws some up but it is cool. It finds stuff Google doesn't.

I tested "What impact adding Elon Musk to Twitter board of directors had on twitter's share price" and I agree with you the result is much better that when you search the same thing on Google.

To be honest that's impressive for complex queries

we're attempting to build out content curation for search at Breeze

in some cases, those results are baked into the core search experience, e.g., click news or recipes on main search at https://breezethat.com

in other cases, we're doing stand-alone drops as we experiment with different curation &/or technical challenges for different topics:

- college scholarships -- wide quality variance, https://breezethat.com/b/scholarships

- golf expert -- sheer breadth of websites, https://breezethat.com/x/demo-golf-search

- gender filter -- getting the dials just right, https://breezethat.com/p/gender-filter-beta

while it is the case that we're doing curation internally at the moment, we fully expect to open that up in some way as we scale; that will likely be after our next release to (1) fix our really awful mobile UX and (2) to deploy some version of our time filter, which is a core part of our thesis about easily tracking topics over time, e.g., this thread with some March Madness examples, https://twitter.com/HeyBreezeThat/status/1511397583209570311

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