Brave Search
Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Tor
- Brave
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Instant Answers
- Independent Searching
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Bangs
- Independent search index
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- AI-Powered
- No Logs
- Search by country and distance
- Bypass Censorship
- Full-Text Search
- Block Trackers
Brave Search News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Brave
Brave launches Ask Brave AI chat search with privacy and multimedia answersBrave has introduced Ask Brave, an AI-powered chat-style search feature available directly from the...
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n8n Cloud now supports community-built nodes with in-editor installationn8n Cloud users now have access to community and partner-built nodes, a feature previously limited ...
- POX published news article about Brave Search
Brave Search will now let you upvote and downvote results with its new Rerank featureBrave has introduced a new feature for its search engine, Brave Search, called Rerank. This feature...
Recent activities
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What is Brave Search?
Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.
Brave Search is available in beta release globally on all Brave browsers (desktop, Android, and iOS) as one of the search options alongside other search engines, and will become the default search in the Brave browser later. It is also available from any other browser.
Brave Search is different from other search engines because it uses its own index and follows different principles:
- Privacy: no tracking or profiling of users.
- User-first: the user comes first, not the advertising and data industries.
- Independence: Brave has its own search index for answering common queries privately without reliance on other providers.
- Choice: soon, options for ad-free paid search and ad-supported search. (Sometime in early 2022, Brave Search results will include paid ads (delivered, of course, in a way that protects privacy). Users with a Brave Search Premium subscription will see ad-free search results)
- Transparency: no secret methods or algorithms to bias results, and soon, community-curated open ranking models to ensure diversity and prevent algorithmic biases and outright censorship.
- Seamlessness: best-in-class integration between the browser and search without compromising privacy, from personalization to instant results as the user types.
- Openness: Brave Search will soon be available to power other search engines.
Brave Search uses its own index, but also ensures fully anonymous search, is transparent in how search results are ranked, and integrates with a privacy-preserving browser on desktop and mobile – an across-the-board combination of independence and privacy which no other provider offers.
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.
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Comments and Reviews
Great private search. It finds what I need most of the time and doesn't censor my results.
It's a bit slower than DuckDuckGo and sometimes I'd have to fall back on Startpage Search If I really can't find something but overall, it's decent.
How do you know it is privacy-focused or doesn't censor or downrank results if it is not open-source?
I really do appriciate Brave trying to break into this sphere, as having Google and Bing being the only major players with an actual full search index sucks. With that said, holy crap Brave Search isn't good. It just never has anything useful, and it feels like rather than making sure that the search results are good, they're instead focusing on random one-off ideas like Goggles or whatever. I want to see them do well but after three times of trying to switch over to it and it not going well, I just have to give up.
A good alternative, I think it handles better keyword search than many hardcore privacy-focused search engines, and it's very cool that it uses its own index.
Amazing privacy-focused search engine as it has an independent search index, !bangs, Discussions, and Answer with AI and chat mode (both with equally heavy emphasis on privacy).
Just a few minor gripes:
the AI assistant they have is very biased just like Goolge, I would not recommend it
To whom or what? This is a useless review.
am i missing something? it's just google's results but you can't go past page 7, poor
I don't even use the Brave browser, (I use firefox-forks for the most part) but changing my defaults Brave Search is usually the first thing I do when I'm setting up a new browser. It's - by far - the most accurate in terms of relevence, their little AI summaries are (9 times out of 10) genuinely helpful, and the fact it's totally independent is refreshing. Most 'privacy-respecting' search engines callback to Google, Bing, or another major company for search results. As far as I can tell, brave search is one of the few that doesn't.
The only things I miss from a service such as Google, is the shopping tab. In saying that, I can understand why this is tricky to do under braves circumstance, as they don't have nearly as much data on user-location or shopping/general web habits as Google.
Other than shopping, the only other thing Brave is lacking on is their Image-search. It doesn't seem nearly as accurate or relevent-to-searchterm as their general browser. The upside to this, is it's rather easy to find a userscript to inject either DuckDuckGo's or Google's image base, which fixes this problem entirely.
I rarely reccommend anything so highly - but genuinely - if you're looking for an alternative search engine (or just trying to de-google) Brave Search is an EXCELLENT start.