Emma Roth, “ Brave’s search engine lets you customize your results” at The Verge (June 22, 2022) It will start deleting these Goggles once users start coming up with their own, but I’m hoping the Pinterest one sticks around. Brave says these Goggles are just for demonstrative purposes, and developers can expand on or fork them. There’s even a Goggle to exclude posts from Pinterest - because Brave clearly knows the frustration of trying to find an image and getting a Pinterest post with no source. Meanwhile, Brave unveiled a new tool last week - Goggles - that enables users to customize their own searches more effectively:īrave has some demos ready for users to try today, including ones that prioritize posts from smaller tech blogs and filter out posts from the 1,000 most-viewed sites on the web. But if anyone can do it, why not the company with courage in its name?” Others with deeper pockets and better name recognition have tried to slay the search giant, only to end up an afterthought. Even a user who prefers another search engine might, if stymied, find it useful to try Brave, for a fresh look at the trail.Ĭarpenter comments in an e-newsletter, “Brave’s odds of threatening Google’s dominance are pretty long. Brave established a third English language search dataset. Also, as web developer Nathan Jacobson has pointed out, only two major English language indexes exist – Google’s and Bing’s and most search “alternatives” are using those datasets. But, as Carpenter reports, that search engine appears to have compromised its no-tracking policy by allowing Microsoft a carve-out. Brave launched Brave Search in beta earlier this summer.Now, DuckDuckGo, which also claims it doesn’t track users, reported 35.3 billion queries in 2021.
Brave says that the free version of its search engine will "soon be ad-supported," with the company planning to offer a premium ad-free plan later down the line. Brave Search does not display any ads in its current form, but the company announced plans this week to change that.
Users in all countries will still be able to revert their default search engine back to Google or DuckDuckGo, but Brave is hoping the majority won't. Brave Search is also available in any other browser at . Brave users can easily choose a different search option if they prefer by managing their search engine settings.
Today's Brave desktop browser update (version 1.31), as well as the Brave Android app (version 1.31)* and the Brave iOS app (version 1.32) all automatically offer Brave Search as the default for new users in these five countries, with fully localized versions in non-English geographies. Brave Search is also replacing other default browsers, such as Qwant in France and DuckDuckGo in Germany. The increasingly popular privacy-focused browser Brave is officially saying goodbye to Google as its default search engine, replacing the world's most popular search engine in favor of "Brave Search," the company announced in a blog post.īrave Search is Brave's answer to customers wanting a "privacy-preserving" search engine, and it's built using Brave's own "independent index, and doesn't track users, their searches, or their clicks." Brave users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada will automatically have Brave Search set as their default search engine in the address bar instead of Google.