The growth of DuckDuckGo and the Brave web browser are clear evidence that web users are increasingly concerned with their privacy online. Brave’s web browser has also grown to roughly 25 million users. It recently even surpassed Bing to become the #2 mobile search engine in the United States. According to its CEO, DuckDuckGo has approximately 25 million users. Until now, the most popular private alternative to search engine giants like Google was DuckDuckGo.

Openīrave does not believe in walled gardens and will offer Brave Search to power other search engines. Rather, it is exploring open ranking models curated by its community to ensure diversity and prevent biases and censorship. Transparentīrave claims it will not use secret algorithms to find results. Independentīrave relies on anonymized contributions from the community in order to refine and improve its search engine.

User-Firstīrave claims to serve its users ahead of the digital advertising and data industries. Here are the qualities Brave says you can expect from its search engine: Privateīrave will not track its users. On the other hand, the major search engines are built by or rely on results from Big Tech companies, according to Brave. Their search engine is built on top of a completely independent index, which delivers results without compromising its users’ privacy. The Difference Between Brave Search and Other Search EnginesĪccording to Brave, their search engine does not collect IP addresses or use any personally identifying information to improve search results. Google announced just days before that it would stop selling ads based on users’ browsing history. “Brave Search and the Brave browser constitute the industry’s first independent, privacy-preserving alternative to Google Chrome and Google Search, which rely on tracking users across sites and have 70 percent and 92 percent market share, respectively,” according to Brave’s announcement.īrave’s announcement quickly followed the news that Google took a move to protect privacy for its users. Brave Search will be integrated into the Brave browser.

Tailcat will become the foundation for Brave Search, the official name of the new search engine.

Brave first acquired Tailcat, the open search engine developed by Cliqz. The Difference Between Brave Search and Other Search EnginesĪccording to the announcement from Brave, the search engine is a user-first, private option.

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