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Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by mathgorges on Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:37PM (#35735398)
Can you walk me through what a typical search day is like for you?

To me, the 700 soft limit seems absurd so I'm curious to hear how you interact with the product.

I average 50-100 searches per work day and 10-20 searcher per off day (totalling 1-2.5k per month). But I don't feel I'm using search in a particularly strange way.

For example, if I need to know how the new WidgetBean in SpringBoot works I'll usually end up making ~10 queries related to it before I move on to a new area of research.

E.g., I'll search "SpringBoot WidgetBean release notes" then "SpringBoot WidgetBean examples" or "WidgetBean test double", "WidgetBean in MockMvc test", "WidgetBean PowerMock known issues in MockMvc test", "WidgetBean FooService interation in MockMvc test SpringBoot 3".

Essentially, when I'm searching I go wide to survey the information landscape, then refine my search term as I discover what I actually need to know

This quickly balloons as I'm expected to know many things at $dayjob :)

What does it look like when you search?

Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by eitland on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:04AM (#35740799)
I'll try to get back with some numbers later today.
Re:Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search res... by eitland on Friday April 28, 2023 @04:11PM (#35746477)
This month, sorry for the crazy date formatting, I copied it from the Kagi UI:

  Date (UTC) Searches
  Apr 28, 2023 23
  Apr 27, 2023 11
  Apr 26, 2023 24
  Apr 25, 2023 4
  Apr 24, 2023 18
  Apr 23, 2023 7
  Apr 22, 2023 1
  Apr 21, 2023 6
  Apr 20, 2023 7
  Apr 19, 2023 10
  Apr 17, 2023 18
  Apr 16, 2023 1
  Apr 15, 2023 14
  Apr 14, 2023 22
  Apr 13, 2023 7
  Apr 12, 2023 18
  Apr 11, 2023 11
  Apr 10, 2023 13
  Apr 9, 2023 4
  Apr 8, 2023 15
  Apr 7, 2023 7
  Apr 6, 2023 6
  Apr 5, 2023 7
  Apr 4, 2023 12
  Apr 3, 2023 19
  Apr 2, 2023 11
  Apr 1, 2023 15
The last few months:

  (UTC) Searches
  Apr 2023 311
  Mar 2023 495
  Feb 2023 313
  Jan 2023 434
  Dec 2022 386
  Nov 2022 396
  Oct 2022 425
How I search:

I typically start with one of the same type of queries as you did above, then I open every interesting-looking page from the first query in a nested tab (I use tree style tabs in my "research" browser) and start reading them, ctrl-clicking again to open interesting links in new tabs nested in a new level beneath, closing pages that was clearly useless and bookmarking in raindrop if I immediately sense that the oage I am on is something I will need again.

Once I have exhausted this tree, at least temporarily, I start a new search - like you do - in a new top level tab anf create a new tree from it.