Brave Search
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Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Tor
- Brave
Features
Brave Search News & Activities
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Recent News
- POX published news article about Brave SearchBrave Search will now let you upvote and downvote results with its new Rerank feature
Brave has introduced a new feature for its search engine, Brave Search, called Rerank. This feature...
- POX published news article about Brave SearchBrave Search adds real-time blockchain data résults with on-chain Ethereum address lookup
Brave Search has introduced on-chain capabilities, enhancing its search engine with real-time block...
- Maoholguin published news article about Brave SearchBrave Search introduces AI Chat mode, allowing follow-up questions without new searches
Brave Search has unveiled a new chat mode within Brave Search, enhancing the previously introduced ...
Recent activities
- refoorest added Brave Search as alternative to refoorest
- Asumeh reviewed Brave Search
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:
- Not open-source
- Occasionally one non-intrusive ad for some search queries (hence why it has a Premium subscription available)
- Anonymous usage metrics is enabled by default
- iSky7113 rated Brave Search
- iSky7113 liked Brave Search
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?
Reply written Aug 24, 2023
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.
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
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.
As the CEO himself said on Twitter / X the independence of this is questionable. Their index was bought from a company which built it through surveillance in Firefox browser and their way of crawling the internet would seem to be grabbing results from other search engines. As such it contains a lot of very GOOGLE like results and MSM. Their AI also has a lot of bias. Check their own online community to see the problems with Brave Search I hope to see it improve.