Brave Search
Provides private, user-focused search using a proprietary index, ensuring no tracking, transparent ranking, anonymous use, seamless browser integration, both ad-free and ad-supported models, open ranking initiatives, and image search on all platforms.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Tor
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- AI-Powered
Features
- Instant Answers
- Independent Searching
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Bangs
- Independent search index
- No registration required
- No Logs
- Bypass Censorship
- Full-Text Search
- Block Trackers
Brave Search News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about DuckDuckGo
Beyond the Overview: Our top alternatives to Google’s continuous AI push in search resultsMany users are increasingly fed up with Google's aggressive push toward artificial intelligence, pa...
- Fla published news article about Brave Search API
Brave Search API unveils Place Search endpoint for detailed map queriesBrave Search API has launched the Place Search endpoint, enabling detailed map-based queries across...
- Maoholguin published news article about Brave Search API
Brave updates its Search API with a new LLM context endpoint for AI and new pricingBrave has announced a major overhaul of its Search API, introducing the LLM Context endpoint as its...
Recent activities
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What is Brave Search?
Brave Search is a search engine that doesn't track users, search queries, or click activity. Available globally in beta version across all Brave browsers, it can also be accessed from any web browser and will soon become the default search engine in the Brave browser.
Brave Search's main features include a focus on privacy, a user-first approach, and independence through its own search index. It offers options for ad-free paid search and ad-supported search, transparency, and seamless integration between the browser and search. It also plans to make Brave Search available to power other search engines in the future.
Brave Search uses its own index and offers anonymous search, transparency in search result ranking, and integration with a privacy-preserving browser on both desktop and mobile platforms. It introduces a search independence metric that shows the ratio of results sourced exclusively from Brave’s index. This metric is privately derived using the user's browser as user profiles are not created. Users can use this metric to confirm the independence of their results.
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Brave Search information
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Brave Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $2 and $3 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 4Alternatives
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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.
Better than Google Search and 100% private
It has a terrible synchronization system; we can't create and log in with a username and password. There is no past synchronization on all devices.
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.