Brave’s search engine lets you customize your results

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Brave Search has a new feature that allows you to create or apply custom filters that can be used to change the ranking of its results. It might be possible to uncover sources you might not find on traditional search engines.

There are some demos ready for users to try today, including ones that prioritize posts from smaller tech blogs and filters out posts from the most-viewed sites on the web. Brave knows the frustration of trying to find an image and get a post with no source, so she created a Goggle to exclude posts fromPinterest. Brave says that these Goggles are only for demonstration purposes. The Goggles will be deleted once users come up with their own, but I hope the one on pins stays.

Brave says its engine doesn't have editorial biases, but that doesn't change the fact that there are biases inherent in all of the software. Goggles allow you to have a say in what biases are used.

I was impressed with how well the feature worked for me. I searched for a review of Air Pods Pro with the "Tech blogs" filter turned on, but no one was found.

I thought it would be easy to create your own Goggles, but it isn't as easy as I thought. Developers can read up on the tool on the website. I will wait for someone to come up with a Goggle that will allow me to view only satirical articles.

Brave also announced that it has seen 2.5 billion searches in the past year and that it's search engine is out of alpha. I think that Brave is becoming the Swiss army knife of search engines. The new discussions feature eliminates the need for users to add "Reddit" to the end of their searches, and now displays results from Reddit for questions.