Brave browser search engine8/31/2023 And this independence does not come at the expense of quality: Over the past several months, the Search team has drastically improved Brave Search’s ability to answer nuanced, long-tail queries.įor the time being, Brave Search won’t serve image or video results from its own index, as we work to improve quality. As always, our results will preserve user privacy. What this means for Brave Search and usersīy default, Brave Search users will now receive 100% of results from the Brave Index, giving users fully independent results. Thankfully (and unlike other search alternatives), Brave had both an independent index, and a built-in delivery mechanism (the Brave browser) to continue improving the Brave Search index. The consequences of their reliance on Bing will play out in the following months when their long term contracts expire. This created undue pressure for search engines that rely partly or fully on the Bing Search API. We feared for the continuity of the Bing service, which turned out to be a prescient concern, as Microsoft recently announced an unprecedented increase in its API pricing. Together, these achievements allowed us to accelerate this milestone of 100% independence.īut there was also another consideration: uncertainty over the future of the Bing API, which grew after the Microsoft and OpenAI partnership. The rapid adoption of Brave Search (it’s now averaging about 22 million queries per day) made it the fastest growing search engine since Bing.īroad adoption of the Web Discovery Project (which allows users to anonymously contribute browsing data to grow the Brave Search index) meant results had the nuance and completeness needed to compete on both privacy and quality. We were able to achieve these improvements in a few ways: Total independence, however, was a primary goal of Brave, and in less than a year the Brave Search global independence score rose from 87% to 93%. When Brave Search launched in June 2021, about 13% of the queries required the help of third parties to achieve the desired level of quality across various types of queries. That meant far less reliance on the existing Big Tech options (Bing and Google) than the supposed alternatives-like DuckDuckGo-that are actually powered by these Big Tech APIs. Since its launch, privacy-preserving Brave Search has been the only global, independent alternative to serve results almost exclusively from its own index. We’ve removed all search API calls to Bing, which previously represented about 7% of query results. Summary: how can you support Brave Searchīrave Search also announces it will launch its own search API to power other search applications in the near future SummaryĮvery Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index.What this means for Brave Search and users.Shields blocks most trackers, advertisements, and unnecessary cookies. Along with the Brave Browser, users can go online with Brave Search without being tracked thanks to a feature the company calls ‘Sheilds'. Brave Search, like DuckDuckGo, is working up to be an alternative to major search services like Google and Bing and is perfect for people who are concerned about data privacy (which should be all of us).īrave claims that the Brave Search does not collect IP addresses and does not use personal data to improve search results so the user remains anonymous. According to reports, Brave announced its own search engine earlier in March this year following the acquisition of Cliqz which is an anti-tracking browser with a built-in search engine. Now, it has rolled out the public beta version of the search engine through an official browser app and a new website. Brave, a privacy-focused web browser, has been testing its own search engine for a while now with a small bunch of invited users.
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