My priority for search is that it’s free of political censorship and weighting. Google is abysmal on this issue, then we had the DDG CEO on here making excuses for his very clear statements about Russian news sources. I don’t need or want anyone else to decide for me what qualifies as “misinformation” I will decide that for myself.
It surprisingly comes up for image searching. Google for example has been known to censor images of Tiananmen Square.
On the topic of "weighting", Brave Goggles allow you to decide the weighting/ranking yourself, and is a great and under-used feature. The UI is a bit lacking (you have to create a goggle as a github gist/repo, publish it by submitting it to them, then bookmark an unweildy URL that's the link to your custom search engine), but the goggle syntax is pretty expressive and easy to use.
I didn't even know about Brave Search! Thanks for the heads up, I'll switch now and see how it compares. DDG's CEO praising censorship of Russian sites definitely soured me on them.
It surprisingly comes up for image searching. Google for example has been known to censor images of Tiananmen Square.