Brave Search Offers Left-Leaning, Right-Leaning Search Filters
The search engine for the Brave browser can now filter your search results based on your political leanings.
On Wednesday, the company Brave Software introduced(Opens in a new window) a beta feature called “Goggles,” which offers customized search filters to re-rank your search results.
“This means that, instead of a single ranking, Brave Search(Opens in a new window) can offer an almost limitless number of ranking options, enabling search use-cases that could be too specific for a general purpose search engine,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Brave Software is hoping users will create and share their own custom filters for the feature. But at launch, Goggles already comes with two preset filters, which have been designed to re-rank the search results to favor left-leaning sources or right-leaning sources.
The so-called “left-leaning” and “right-leaning” filters were developed by the team at AllSides(Opens in a new window), a site that delivers news from a range of media sources. The left-leaning filter was programmed to elevate sources such as CNN, HuffPost, and The New York Times while the right-leaning filter will boost results from Fox News, Breitbart, and The Washington Examiner. The same filters will also source posts from related forums on Reddit.
In addition, the Goggles feature comes with other presets that can focus on featuring content from “tech blogs” or filter out the results to remove Pinterest pages and copycat content. But Brave merely debuted these presets as demos, which it plans on phasing out over time.
As for the left-leaning and right-leaning filters from AllSides, Brave Software said it's "not affiliated with any of the Goggles' independent creators."
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