Brave search is a continuation of cliqz. A German company that developed a proper search engine, with an independent index. They shut down, but the tech got sold off.
Cliqz was the first time for me that a Google alternative actually worked really well - and it, or now brave search, is what parent was asking for :)
Yet we're still back to Larry Page and Sergey Brin's conclusion in their "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" research paper[0]:
> We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
Brave Search Premium hasn't been around nearly as long as their free tier serving ads, and I'm not confident this conflict of interest is gone.
Having independent indexes is a win regardless though.
Could you please elaborate?