The first countries to make the change are the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, where Google will be replaced by Brave Search as the default search engine. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks,” Brave revealed in a blog post announcing the switch. “Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech. And while this will not result in any tracking of the user, it will reduce the independence metric, the company explained.Brave Search will become the default search option for new users in the US, UK, Canada, Germany and France, with more countries to follow soon.īrave, the company most widely known for its eponymous privacy-focused browser, has announced that it will replace Google and other search engines with its own Brave Search as the default search engine for new users. For example, searching for images will fetch results from Microsoft Bing. Certain areas, such as image search, will require the company to use APIs until they are able to expand their index. However, Brave Software noted that their search results might not be relevant enough yet. Brave Search will include anonymized contributions from the community to improve and refine search results. The metric is derived privately using the user’s browsers and the company will not build or store user profiles. The company’s new search engine is also introducing the industry’s first search independence metric, displaying the ratio of results coming exclusively from Brave’s index. Since then, over 100,000 users have signed up for preview access and testing of the new search engine. The new service is available in beta release and is set to become the default search option in the Brave browser later this year.īrave Search was first announced in March when the company acquired Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz. According to the press release published on 22 June, Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index and doesn’t track users or their searches.

Brave Software is living up to its name, as the company has just given internet users unrestricted access to its new competitor of the Google search engine.

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