It consists of four required lines of metadata in a text file with a. The syntax for defining a Goggles file (the Domain Specific Language) is simple. Anyone who has entered programming-oriented queries recently is likely to welcome a way to deal with answer-spam sites. For example, one of the current 'Popular Goggles' is ' Copycats removal,' which eliminates a vast number of domains that copy content from more popular sources like Stack Overflow. For example, two of the eight 'Popular Goggles' surfaced within Brave at the moment include ' Left sources,' which favors news sources associated with left-leaning politics, and ' Right sources,' which favors news sources associated with right-leaning politics.Īnother potential use for Goggles is the de-ranking or exclusion of websites that publish clickbait or junk content. And with Goggles, Brave users – individually or as a group – can create their own private or public adjustments to the default order.īrave says this will allow users to counter any built-in bias in its search results, but a likely consequence is that users or groups of users will be able to craft rules that enforce a different bias. You prefer The Register to appear higher in your search results? You can create a Goggle to do that.īrave imposes its own ranking on search results for a given query. Or more simply put, it allows users to select how individual sites are boosted up or brought down in the search results. Goggles, accessible in a tab below the input box on the results page, offers browser users the opportunity to redefine the relevance of search results. Rather it's an effort to innovate in an environment that Google has allegedly monopolized. In an interview with The Register last year, co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich explained that Goggles isn't an attempt to match Google's vast search index. Brave, which now claims more than 59 million monthly active users, has chosen to compete with Google through a service with a confusingly similar name: Goggles.

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