Brave has been one of the greatest cryptocurrency projects. Even the Basic Attention Token held its price extremely well during the long bear market. I missed the ICO that raised $35 Million in 24 seconds. After coming across the project I was extremely impressed and witnessed how Brave Browser evolved over time. It was a great experience and I insist that Brave is the greatest browser on Earth.
Brave Browser released with DuckDuckGo as its browser. Now the developers have released a beta version of their own search engine. It will only be the default search for Brave browser at the end of the year. You are still going to be able to use your current search engine without any issue. It is just Brave Search will be promoted in place of DuckDuckGo.
Later API access to Brave Search will be offered so it can power other search engines.
Even supposedly “neutral” or “private” search engines rely on big tech for results. Brave is different. We deliver results based on our own built-from-scratch index. We’re beholden to no one.
It Gets Even Better
Brave Search is also introducing the industry's first search independence metric, displaying the ratio of results coming exclusively from Brave's index. It is derived privately using the user's browser as we do not build user profiles. Users can check this aggregate metric to verify the independence of their results and see how results are powered by our own index, or if third-parties are being used for long tail results while we are still in the process of building our index.
Currently Brave does depend on third parties like Bing to a small extent in order to maintain high quality results until they up their game. What is an industry first is that all of this is going to be fully transparent and can be viewed with a single click.
Great For Other Privacy Search Engines Too
I am a big fan of https://duckduckgo.com and https://qwant.com These are not alone in the quest to provide more privacy and better results. (I strongly urge you to compare search results from Google vs DuckDuckGo and others. Bing comes in the middle in my anecdotal experiences)
Apart from Google and Microsoft, companies have not been able to create a robust search index due to the complexity, resource consumption etc. Brave has finally taken the job head on. As a result, we might be see DuckDuckGo and others starting to use some of Brave Search.
A Win For All of Us
This was not a news I was expecting. https://search.brave.com offers a clean interface good search results and excellent level of privacy and transparency. You can learn even more things at https://search.brave.com/help It should help you with most of your questions.
Brave Search doesn't track you or your queries. Ever. It's impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your data, because we don't collect it in the first place. We leverage your browser to store information on how our search engine is helping answer your queries independently.