--- canonical: "https://www.jsolly.com/blog/use-brave-search-goggles-to-improve-web-searches/" title: "Optimizing Web Searches With Brave's Search Goggles" description: "Learn how to optimize web searches using Brave Search Googles. Create custom re-ranking on top of the Brave search index using rules and filters." author: "John Solly" published: "2022-07-19T21:14:13.095Z" updated: "2022-07-19T21:14:13.095Z" --- # Optimizing Web Searches With Brave's Search Goggles ![Meta Image](https://d1d7p8ufhgz4ld.cloudfront.net/media/post_metaimgs/solly-goggle.webp) A few months ago, I wrote a post about [how to use search parameters to optimize web searches with DuckDuckGo](https://www.jsolly.com/blog/finding-reliable-information/). I've found a way to incorporate a lot of those ideas automatically in searches using Brave Search Googles. > Goggles enable any individual—or community of people—to alter the ranking of Brave Search by using a set of instructions (rules and filters). Anyone can create, apply, or extend a Goggle. Essentially Goggles act as a custom re-ranking on top of the Brave search index. > > \- [Brave](https://search.brave.com/help/goggles) I created two goggles that I use every day to search the web. 1. [No Crap goggles](https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fjsolly%2Fsolly-brave-search-goggles%2Fmain%2Fgoggles%2Fno_crap.goggle) 2. [No Crap Goggles + Remove top 1000 websites](https://search.brave.com/goggles?goggles_id=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fjsolly%2Fsolly-brave-search-goggles%2Fmain%2Fgoggles%2Fno_crap_remove_top1000.goggle) Both goggles remove copycats (sites that just scrape StackOverflow and re-host) and low-quality sites (W3schools) while boosting .edu and .org, and official documentation sites. The second goggle goes a step further by removing the top 1000 websites on the internet. Creating a goggle is super easy. Check out the [quickstart guide](https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart). July 19, 2022 in [Productivity](https://www.jsolly.com/blog/category/productivity/) Updated July 19, 2022