90% of my searches don’t touch Google anymore — here’s what I use instead
Her passions include making tech concepts easier for people to understand and highlighting the products she thinks provide users with value-for-money. She specializes in Android phones and apps, as well as computing and gaming. She got her start writing about technology at iafrica.com, but has since written for MakeUseOf, XDA Developers, and Tom's Guide. She was also Editor-in-Chief at Memeburn and Gearburn from 2020 to 2022. Her first smartphone was an HTC device and she has been a loyal Android user since.
- ▪Her passions include making tech concepts easier for people to understand and highlighting the products she thinks provide users with value-for-money.
- ▪She specializes in Android phones and apps, as well as computing and gaming. She got her start writing about technology at iafrica.com, but has since written for MakeUseOf, XDA Developers, and Tom's Guide.
- ▪She was also Editor-in-Chief at Memeburn and Gearburn from 2020 to 2022. Her first smartphone was an HTC device and she has been a loyal Android user since.
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Record
| Original publisher | Android Authority |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidauthority.com/leaving-google-search-brave-alternative-experience-3691435/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:00:48 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-02T11:05:40.750Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-02T11:05:40.750Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | KY2bqn0BgO3P · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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