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Brave Search
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Brave Search is a search engine developed by Brave Software, Inc., and is the default search engine for the Brave web browser in certain countries.[2]
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History
Brave Search was developed following the acquisition of Tailcat, a privacy-focused search engine from Cliqz, a subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media based in Germany.[3][4][5][6]
In October 2021, Brave Search was made the default search engine for Brave browser users in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom (replacing Google Search), France (replacing Qwant) and Germany (replacing DuckDuckGo).[7]
In June 2022, Brave Search ended its beta stage and was fully released along with an announcement that within its year-long beta testing period, it surpassed 2.5 billion total queries.[6][8][9][10]
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Features
Brave Search uses its own web index to generate search results with the aid of the WDP project.[11]
However, the user can allow the Brave browser to anonymously check Google for the same query.[12]
Discussions
A feature that shows conversations related to the search query, such as comments on the website Reddit.[13]
When a user searches and scrolls down, if available a discussions section will be there, and it will contain various forums where and the user can click one to see an answer from a user from an online community.
Goggles
A feature that allows users to apply their own rules and filters to a search.[14]
Search API
In May of 2023, Brave announced that it had launched a Search API.[15] Brave Search API is an interface that allows developers to integrate search functionalities from the Brave Search engine into their applications.[16]
Answer with AI
A large language model that automatically responds to some search queries, aided by content from web pages in the search results.[17]
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Brave Search Premium
Users can optionally create an account with Brave Search Premium to support Brave Search directly involving data-collection.[1]
As of January 2025, Brave Search is an ad-free website, but it will eventually switch to a new model that will include ads and premium users will get an ad-free experience.[1]
Data collection
User data including IP addresses won't be collected from its users by default.[18]
However, Brave Search implements some level of data collect when users opt in through the Web Discovery Project (WDP).[19] No account is required for this function.[20]
As of May 2022, it covered over 10 billion pages and was used to serve 92% of search results without relying on any third-parties, with the remainder being retrieved server-side from the Bing API or (on an opt-in basis) client-side from Google.[11]
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Limitations
According to Brave, the index was kept "intentionally smaller than that of Google or Bing" in order to help avoid spam and other low-quality content, with the disadvantage that "Brave Search is not yet as good as Google in recovering long-tail queries."[11]
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External links
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