“Unlike older search engines that track and profile users, and newer search engines that are mostly a skin on older engines and don’t have their own indexes, Brave Search offers a new way to get relevant results with a community-powered index, while guaranteeing privacy. “Brave Search is the industry’s most private search engine, as well as the only independent search engine, giving users the control and confidence they seek in alternatives to big tech,” said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave.
Openness: Brave Search will soon be available to power other search engines.Seamlessness: best-in-class integration between the browser and search without compromising privacy, from personalization to instant results as the user types.Transparency: no secret methods or algorithms to bias results, and soon, community-curated open ranking models to ensure diversity and prevent algorithmic biases and outright censorship.Choice: soon, options for ad-free paid search and ad-supported search.Independence: Brave has its own search index for answering common queries privately without reliance on other providers.User-first: the user comes first, not the advertising and data industries.Privacy: no tracking or profiling of users.īrave Search is different from other search engines because it uses its own index and follows different principles: Brave already offers privacy-preserving Brave Ads, Brave News, and a Firewall+VPN service. Brave recently passed 32 million monthly active users (up from 25 million last March), and Brave Search is the latest product offered by the company in its suite of privacy-preserving tools as millions of users are turning to alternatives to big tech. īrave Search was announced this past March when Brave acquired Tailcat, and since then there have been over 100,000 users who signed up for preview access and testing. It is also available from any other browser at.
Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.īrave Search is available in beta release globally on all Brave browsers (desktop, Android, and iOS) as one of the search options alongside other search engines, and will become the default search in the Brave browser later this year. Whether they are already Brave browser users, looking to expand their online privacy protection with the all-in-one, integrated Brave Search in the Brave browser, or users of other browsers looking for the best-in-breed privacy-preserving search engine, they can all use the newly released Brave Search beta that puts users first, and fully in control of their online experience. Those more dominant search providers say they're focusing on trustworthy sources of information and otherwise helping users find useful content, but Brave contends that Goggles can help counter biases inherent to its larger competitors' technology.Starting today, online users have a new independent option for search which gives them unmatched privacy. A community could also share Goggles to more consistently surface the sites it uses most often.īrave is pitching the tool as a foil to the algorithms Google and Microsoft's Bing use to prioritize some search results while downplaying others. You won't necessarily have to spend time fine-tuning your results, then. You can create, modify or use others' rankings just by running a search and tapping the "Goggles" button. You can refine a "politics" query to shift the focus to blogs instead of major news outlets, for instance. The company has introduced a beta Goggles feature for Brave Search (itself no longer a beta) that lets anyone set their own criteria for search rankings. If you're concerned that the usual web search engines might be biased, don't worry - Brave thinks it can help.
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