Brave has their own search engine, yandex I only use for reverse image search, baidu's interface is really clean and feels like old school google... but I don't speak chinese so I can't use it.
Brave doesn't have its own index of the full web, and it's even less useful than Yandex. And very likely buys some of it, according to what I've heard. So it falls into the last category.
if that is true then they are lying on their site where they claim: "Brave Search operates from a fully independent search index"
do you have any reference for your claim?
i use brave search and find it very useful. very rarely there is something i can't find, and when i run into that other search engines are not much better.
Given the piles of spammy shit on Google these days, I'm wondering if "doesn't have its own index of the full web" is actually a competitive advantage.
> Kagi also uses Yandex index so it would be unusual that something exists in Yandex and not in Kagi results.
I've no reason to doubt this so I'll attribute it to which results get pushed higher in the rankings. Different entities hold power in the E & W hemispheres and that can influence search results to a degree.
Past that, there are some things I get at Yandex because Kagi seems incapable of searching for them. ex: Long strings like MD5 and larger hashes.
edit:30 seconds after posting I searched a hash and Kagi sent back a ton of results. As recently as last week I got zero results (diff hash).
That's the 2nd time in a week Kagi disproved a complaint of mine. I hope they continue to do so.
And Yandex isn't much better for non cyrillic search, Baidu is only for the Chinese web effectively.
And all other search engines either don't even attempt to do full web crawls anymore and/or buy from one of the four above.
So realistically there's just one search engine for the full web that actually does the work.