Brave Search is the search service from Brave Software, developer of the Brave browser. As you can see, everything is brave within Brave and from now on it is one hundred percent as far as its seeker is concerned, which gets rid of the last “guilty remnant” that it still carried.
In fact, it is worth mentioning that unlike other alternative search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Brave Seach opted for its independence from the beginning, understanding by independence in search results that it offers to its users and the origin of these. But it is not so easy to set up a competent search engine and to improve the quality of these, the company had to rely on more consolidated options.
Thus, Brave Search used the indexing of Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, to complement its own scans of the Web. Very little, in fact: hardly 13% of the results offered by Brave Search in its first year on the market came from Bing. A year later the percentage was reduced to 7% and now it disappears entirely.
According to the Brave blog, “by default, Brave Search users will now receive 100% of Brave Index results, giving users fully independent results. As always, our results will preserve the privacy of the user, “they explain.
It should be noted that as far as privacy is concerned, there has never been a difference between Brave’s own results or those indexed by Bing, because when they are displayed on the screen they have already been anonymized by the search engine. This is a major move in terms of independence for Brave Search as an alternative and, by extension, for all users.
For the rest, Brave Search continues to improve and aspire to more: in the absence of more recent data, a year ago it already served more than 4,500 million searches per year, recently it launched advertising – respectful of privacy, yes – and a premium plan and they are already working on their own system and artificial intelligence with Summarizer.
Still you have not tried? If you are a user of the Brave browser, Brave Search is the default option, but it is a search service that you can use with any browser and, although its performance is not the best -it is the main complaint I have- the quality of the results and the options you have are very good. Give him the opportunity, it never hurts to do it.
