Through Brave Search and other previously launched services like Brave Ads, Brave News, and VPN service, Brave Software is currently positioning itself as the most privacy-focused web browser today, together with the Tor Browser. Once launched, the service will be a direct competitor with DuckDuckGo, the only major privacy-preserving search engine on the market today.
In addition, once the service launches later this year, Brave said it plans to make it available for other browsers as well. "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," Eich said.īrave said its new search engine has already been tested by more than 100,000 users via closed access trials, and the upcoming beta period will help put the final polish for the official launch later this year.įuture plans include showing ads, but they will be based on the company's privacy-preserving Brave Ads systems, and a paid option to hide all ads will also be available. Brave initially announced Brave Search in March, after the company acquired Tailcat, an open search engine developed by the team who previously developed the search engine for the now-defunct Cliqz web browser.īrave CEO Brendan Eich called it "the industry's most private search engine." The search view also supports the dark theme, and some other neat privacy features that you can find in the hamburger menu on the top right.Work on this new service has been going on for the past three months. The promo screen also states that it may get paid ad-free version as well. At the same time, Brave ads may appear in the search in the same way as they exist in the Brave browser. Regarding the search itself, its ranking algorithms are supposed to be open and maintained by the community. If you use a Brave browser, you can also set it as a default search engine already. Brave Software June 22, 2021įor now, it still states "beta" on its home page but should be easily accessible.
Built on top of an independent index, it doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks. The new privacy-preserving #BraveSearch beta is available for all Brave users (desktop/Android/iOS), as well as from other browsers at. Access to the search engine required a short living access token so it wasn't possible to simply open it without an email confirmation. It became available in Early Access to a limited number of registered beta testers for some time and now it is finally available to the public.ĭuring the early access, beta testers were asked not to share any info or screenshots with the public. Earlier this year Brave announced its privacy-focused search engine.
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