However, Brave Search will also be accessible via other browsers by visiting the page. Currently available as a beta in the Brave browser for both mobile and desktop platforms, it will become the default option later this year.

Brave is taking a community-supported approach to improving its search results, and is also taking a novel approach to showing ads. The company claims that Brave Search is the real alternative to Google Search and that it won’t log user activity, what they search, or the links they click. Related: Quick Delete In Search & Other Ways Google Is Improving User Privacy Brave, on the other hand, has a better chance at challenging Google's dominance with a bundle package that is all about protecting privacy, toning down ads, a community-first approach, and transparency. At the moment, DuckDuckGo is the only other name that has a significant user base as a privacy-focused alternative to Google Search, but the market share of Google is disproportionately high at roughly 92-percent right now. You can also read more about the Brave Search’s approach to indexing the web and its anniversary milestone in its blog post.With the addition of a search engine to its portfolio, the company is putting forward its best bet of offering a full package to users worried about their online privacy.

Brave Search also provides a sense of higher quality, more curated results-you don’t need to learn the little search term tricks that force Google to filter out SEO garbage or to actually pull in Reddit posts.īut you can see it for yourself-just pop on over to, run a search, then click on “Goggles (Beta)” at the top of the results to apply a filter. Just as you might solicit multiple opinions on a topic, the ability to manually seek different takes on search results via Goggles can help you gain a wider range of perspectives. It offers a broader, more independent look at what exists on the web-after all, what a search engine serves you is based on its opinion of relevancy, as dictated by its algorithms. This feature could bolster Brave Search’s appeal among people who’d normally never go beyond Google. Brave’s initial set of Goggles, which will be deleted once users begin creating and contributing their own.

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