Instead, it uses Tailcat's own independent index of websites, and is built around the philosophy that "the user comes first, not the advertising and data industries." Another plus, the makers have also launched the Web Discovery Project (WDP), which allows users to pitch in and improve the search engine by anonymously contributing data.In keeping with the project's privacy-first ethos, the search engine offers "fully anonymous search"-it doesn't collect users' IP addresses or personalize results based on identifying information as Google does. However, the company has plans to roll out ads in its free version in the future, but an ad-free premium service will also be launched. With this, a new opt-in system for users to contribute their data and help improve its search results is also being launched.Īs of now, Brave Search is a free service and does not display any ads. The company claims its search engine does not track users, their searches, or their clicks. The move of boosting the search engine reflects the confidence in the new privacy-focused service and is notable for being built as an independent index of the web. However, Brave claims its browser had almost 40 million active users per month, as of September 2021. Its search engine now handles nearly 80 million queries per month.”īeing small, the browser’s market share does not even register against established competitors like Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Opera, as per the data from StatCounter. Google was fined $5 billion by EU regulators for illegally tying Google search to Android due to which Google now offers a choice of search engines.īrave’s co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich said, “As we know from experience, in many browsers the default setting is crucial for adoption, and Brave Search has reached the quality and critical mass needed to become our default search option and offer our users a seamless privacy-by-default online experience. The act of setting the search engine as default is a beneficial promotion tactic and so important that it has become significant focus of antitrust scrutiny. This a substantial step for cookie search engine Brave, which was launched in public beta this year. Other countries will also adopt this search engine in the coming months. Brave search will replace Google in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Qwant in France, and DuckDuckGo in Germany.
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