Ecosia already has more users than Brave Search according to the few sources I could find that even tried to estimate market share for search engines that niche. They’re all less than a percent either way though, and nobody’s gunning to beat the 13th most popular search engine, especially when number 1 has 80-90% of the market according to most estimates.
A search index isn’t a public facing search engine or service.
They’re building a common database for them to both use, as well as others.
So trying to beat Brave or any other search provider, isn’t the goal of this project.
It’s about creating a new index, Brave, or Bing, or other search providers could use if they wanted.
They should focus on beating Brave search before going after Bing, much less Google.
Brave uses their own search index, so they are quite literally trying to do that.
I was refersncing the difference in user numbers.
Ecosia already has more users than Brave Search according to the few sources I could find that even tried to estimate market share for search engines that niche. They’re all less than a percent either way though, and nobody’s gunning to beat the 13th most popular search engine, especially when number 1 has 80-90% of the market according to most estimates.
A search index isn’t a public facing search engine or service.
They’re building a common database for them to both use, as well as others.
So trying to beat Brave or any other search provider, isn’t the goal of this project.
It’s about creating a new index, Brave, or Bing, or other search providers could use if they wanted.