Brave Search is here to battle Google while preserving privacy
Brave continues its focus on web privacy with the launch of Brave Search in beta.
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What you need to know
Brave recently announced a new search engine that aims to protect your privacy. The new tool is called Brave Search. It’s available in beta on all versions of the Brave browser, including desktop, Android, and iOS. You can also use it through other browsers by going tosearch.brave.com. Brave announced the new search engine in arecent post.
The search engine was only announced in March afterBrave acquired the search engine Tailcat. Brave Search will be the default search engine for the Brave browser later this year, which should significantly boost how many people use it. According to Brave, the browser has 32 million monthly active users.
Brave highlights seven principles that Brave Search follows:
Brave Search is built on an independent index, but it’s being built up, so some results will use third parties. For example, searching for images will utilize Bing. Brave explains that this still won’t result in any tracking.
“Brave Search includes anonymized contributions from the community to improve and refine results,” explains Brave. “However, there are types of queries, as well as certain areas such as image search, for which our results are not relevant enough yet, and in those cases we are using APIs until we are able to expand our index.”
Right now, Brave Search doesn’t show any ads, but there will be ad-free paid search and ad-supported free search in the future.
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