Since then there have been over 100,000 users who signed up for preview access & testing. It is also available from any other browser at .īrave Search was announced this past March when Brave acquired Tailcat. It is scheduled to become the default search in the Brave browser later this year. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, & doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.īrave Search is available in beta release globally on all Brave browsers (desktop, Android, & iOS) as one of the search options alongside other search engines. However, Brave also has over 32 million monthly active users, many of whom installed the browser precisely to improve privacy - the search engine already has a ready-made audience that could grow as long as Brave keeps adding users.The team at Brave browser has made available in beta its “privacy-preserving” search engine, “Brave Search”.Here, users are said to be completely in control of their online experience. Google still dominates search with over 92 percent share worldwide, according to Statcounter's May 2021 data, and privacy-oriented browsers like DuckDuckGo don't even register on that chart.

You won't be tracked for those Bing queries, Brave said.īrave has jumped into the search world by acquiring the open source engine Tailcat, created by the team that worked on the privacy-focused browser Cliqz. The site index is independent, although Brave noted that image searches and some other features will lean on Microsoft's Bing. You'll eventually have the option of an ad-free version if you're willing to pay, and Brave will make Search available for other engines. As you'd expect, it's billed as a privacy- and transparency-oriented platform that doesn't track your activity or use 'secret' algorithms to curate results. Brave has launched a beta Search feature both as an option in all its browsers as well as through the web for everyone else.

You can now try Brave's search engine for yourself.

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