web-discovery-project

Web Discovery Project

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Dec 2022	2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jan 2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2023	2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2023	2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2023	2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2023	2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2023	2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2023	2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
Aug 2023	2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1

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_7tgr·Aug 3, 2023

https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project/blob/main/mod... I'm curious to see what you think about this. If you're not okay with Firefox telling Mozilla your IP address every time you connect, does the same go for Brave sending entire pages of your search results to them? This also includes which results you've clicked on.

In Brave Search launches own image and video search

gr_norm·Aug 3, 2023Submission

Brave Web Discovery Project Overview

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jonathansampson·Jul 15, 2023

I'm Sampson, from the Brave team. The Web Discovery Project is a clever approach. For Brave to compete with Google, and offer a truly novel index of the Web, a novel approach must be taken. The WDP is an opt-in, privacy-preserving approach which gives Brave a fighting chance against the Search incumbants. Due to our preference of "Can't be evil" over "Don't be evil," the WDP is not only designed with privacy and anonymity as a prerequisite, but it is also open-source for public scrutiny and evaluation: https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project.

In The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

hartator·Jul 15, 2023

> Simply observe the event in which a user does a query q in Brave and then, within one hour, does the same query on a different search engine. What we do is to move the script that detects bad-queries to the browser, run it against the queries that the user does in real-time and then, when all conditions are met, send the following data back to our servers. Wait. Brave browser sends back to Brave Search engine about your browsing? Other search engines usage, but also crawl pages on your computer to help build their search index? Ref: https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project/blob/main/mod...

In The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

BrendanEich·Dec 2, 2022

Brave search is private in no-user-identification and no-reidentification-via-record-unlinkability senses always, both legs: we do not build user profiles. As with all engines, we learn from head of query log and what link is clicked. That is an essential first party purpose, but we collect no personal data because nothing is linkable across queries and clicks to any person. If you opt into the Web Discovery Project (it's off by default and a separate setting; only in Brave), then your queries and clicks across all navigation are turned into anonymous data by dropping any with enough entropy to suspect they bear personal data, dropping IP and headers, and otherwise ensuring record-unlinkability. See https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh... and https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project/blob/main/mod.... Because

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Premium Brave Search has no ads, it's not useful _per se_ for ad measurement, conversion, or modeling. But I took your question do mean "do premium search queries and outbound link clicks feed into the search engine?" -- they do. But no ads, and no way to model directly how an ad would perform, beyond the big data benefit that all search engine use to help ad sales and matching. Last thing: with off-by-default (opt-in) Brave Rewards user ads (push => new tab on click), the matching agent is in the browser, inactive until opt-in, off upon opt-out, and you can clear its history. Confirmations and revenue shares via Chaumian blind signature protocol (Privacy Pass uses same crypto alg). No server-side ad matching at all. Same for Brave News (for ads and all feeds, everything). With search ads, matching is server-side (after the edge proxy that drops IP etc.) based on only the query, device, country, and timezone. Anything more personalized, we can go to client-side matching and ad insertion. I hope this helps.

In Brave launches private search ads