Josep M. Pujol

Jack of all trades, master of none -- Chief of Search at Brave. Formerly at Cliqz and Tailcat, 3scale, Telefonica Research, University of Michigan...

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

A European Commission proposal could create one of Europe’s largest privacy and national-security risks in decades. https://t.co/7M98GYnPNS

Through DMA enforcement, it may compel Google to hand over sensitive search data about millions of Europeans to third parties, including entities that could be used as fronts by hostile actors.

The privacy risk is serious. The national-security risk is real.

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

Here, we fixed it.

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

Fantastic work for an amazing team, congratulations

[Brave @brave]

Brave Search's newest answer feature gives you a unique way to find information online.

Answer with AI combines information from multiple sources into a single, easy to understand answer to almost any query.

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@PalleyKara @BraveSupport @brave Popularity depends on visits, clicks. Pretty clear. If what you want to say is that popularity is not the same as quality or truth, then I could not agree more. Search engines should not try to decide what is good or what is truthful, it would be pretentious as well as futile.

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@PalleyKara @BraveSupport @brave Therefore there is no explicit biases. But as you noted, there are implicit ones based. A topic that share most of its relevant keywords with another much more popular topic will be very difficult to surface. It's not being actively suppressed, the other is more prevalent.

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@PalleyKara @BraveSupport @brave Search engines, at least Brave, find documents that contains the words of the query, as prevalent as possible. Then sorts all matches by a mix of popularity and recency. There is no interpretation of what the words of the query are or mean (1/2).

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@PalleyKara @BraveSupport @brave Query suggestions are selected according to frequency (number of times it has been seen before) adjusted to time (newer queries have more weight) and remove NSFW terms. There is no more bias than the fact that people seem to query "...is good" much more often than "...is bad"

[Brave @brave]

Brave Search now delivers results for programming-related queries!

The new AI-powered CodeLLM provides code snippets with step-by-step explanations and citations.

All Brave Search users can access it on desktop or mobile now for free!

[Sampson @BraveSampson]

The cat is out of the bag! Long live Leo!

[Brave @brave]

This week on #TheBraveTechnologist, Josep M. Pujol, Chief of Search at Brave, and Subu Sathyanarayana, Director of Engineering for Brave, discuss their quest to improve Internet search and how quickly it’s evolving with the adoption of AI.

Listen to the full podcast, hosted by Luke Mulks, here: https://t.co/kNEIGei0fH

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@Neeva Sad news regarding Neeva. It's sad to see an alternative search engine fold. Best wishes for the team.

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@konarkmodi Thanks!

[Brave @brave]

Today we're thrilled to announce Brave Search is now 100% independent!

We've removed the last remnants of Bing from our privacy-preserving search engine's results so users are now entirely served by Brave's independent search index.

Read more here: https://t.co/kdXosa7IMn

[Brave @brave]

Today we're thrilled to launch the latest AI-powered feature in Brave Search: the Summarizer!

The Brave Summarizer uses our large language models (LLMs) to produce concise answers at the top of Brave Search results pages.

Read this blog to learn more: https://t.co/qBKOe9XZOb

[Brave @brave]

Brave is launching private search ads today. During this beta test, select users will see them in their search results.

Like all Brave products, these ads respect your anonymity. Your data is not tied to any personal identifying information.

Learn more: https://t.co/IAZ91fe3eZ

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@mlinksva @BrendanEich @kidproto @pfrazee @joncruz Thanks a lot, we will keep doing good things at Brave.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Football Legend Eric Cantona reminds football fans: "Let's not forget Julian Assange. A journalist jailed in England for publishing war crimes" #FreeAssangeNOW #WorldCup2022

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@Morpheu52097903 @BrendanEich @brave It's coming, soon

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@neal_lathia If you want to fix it join us :-)

[Josep M. Pujol @solso]

@larryToSpace @BrendanEich @brave @AttentionToken @Pythux What is your locale on your Android, is it US or India, thanks!