According to Brave, the index was kept 'intentionally smaller than that of Google or Bing' in order to help avoid spam and other low-quality content, with the disadvantage that 'Brave Search is not yet as good as Google in recovering long-tail queries.' As of May 2022, it covered over 10 billion pages and was used to serve 92% of search results without relying on any third-parties, with the remainder being retrieved server-side from the Bing API or (on an opt-in basis) client-side from Google. Features īrave search has various features designed to enhance users' searching experience: In addition to the launch, the new Goggles feature was added, allowing users to apply their own rules and filters to search queries. In June 2022, Brave Search ended its beta stage and was fully released. In October 2021, Brave Search was made the default search engine for Brave browser users in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom (replacing Google Search), France (replacing Qwant) and Germany (replacing DuckDuckGo). It hopes to explore bringing BAT revenue sharing to these ads in a similar fashion to the Brave ads platform. īrave Search claims it will eventually offer ad-supported free search as well as ad-free paid search options. However, the user can allow the Brave browser to anonymously check Google for the same query. Brave Search aims to use its independent index to generate search results. and released in Beta in March 2021, following the acquisition of Tailcat, a privacy-focused search engine from Cliqz. History īrave Search is a search engine developed by Brave Software, Inc. March 2021 2 years ago ( March 2021) īrave Search is a search engine developed by Brave Software, Inc., which is set as the default search engine for Brave web browser users in certain countries.

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