![]() The biggest difference between Brave Search and others is that it focuses heavily on privacy. “Brave Search is the industry’s most private engine, as well as the only independent search engine, giving users the control and confidence they seek in alternatives to big tech,” explained Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave, in a blog post. The company explained that its new search engine is built on top of a completely independent index and doesn’t track users, searches or clicks. This week, however, the company launched head-first into giving people a secure way of searching.īrave Search is now available in beta form, claiming to be the first independent privacy-focused search and browser alternative. It’s best known as an alternative to Google’s Chrome if you are concerned about your online data and personal information. Here’s the backstoryīrave has been around for some time. It’s now offering a privacy-focused search engine. But the company isn’t stopping with its own browser. There are also browsers out there that are more privacy-focused than Google. Tap or click here for alternatives to Google for search, email, messaging and more. It’s the main reason many people are looking for alternatives to take back some of their privacy. The problem with Google is that it knows an incredible amount of information on all of its users. The tech giant is estimated to perform nearly 5.6 billion searches every day. I'll be keeping an eye on Brave Search but I'm not too optimistic given Brave's focus and the current state of the public web.Google is a major player when it comes to search engines. ![]() I'm back to using DuckDuckGo as my default now. However, it takes a lot of resources, and with Google being the default, it's difficult to see how they can be sustainable in the long run. It's always great to see new search indexes being brought in to challenge the current state of web search. Brave embeds those sections in between results, which is still annoying but not at bad as having them right at the top. This isn't much different from how DuckDuckGo annoyingly inserts shopping, news and map embeds at the top, causing layout shifts and missed clicks I had to use ad block for those too. There's no way to disable it other than by using an ad blocker to pick out and remove the DOM element. Since it doesn't always appear, it makes search unpredictable. They have an annoying "AI summarizer" which takes up a good chunk of the results page. With Brave being all in on cryptocurrency, it's not a surprise that they're into AI too. Sometimes it resolves, sometimes it doesn't. There are times when Brave seems to get stuck loading. This has never happened to me on other search engines. Making queries too fast triggers a captcha page sometimes. I'm not sure if Brave is planning to provide its own image search, but it's a massive hole for a default provider, even if 50% of the time I end up having to use Google anyway. This choice needs to be made every time on new sessions, which gets a bit annoying when using multi-account containers and private windows. Oddly enough, image search is one of the best ways to find more niche websites as spam tends to avoid using relevant images.īrave requires you to pick Google or Bing for image search. There's just too many issues and limitations which make it unreliable as a default choice. It's been a few months since then and overall, I'd say it's been okay, but not acceptable. Given all of these positivies, I made it my default. It even supports ! operators like DuckDuckGo. It provides Reddit results in a dedicated "Discussions" section, without needing to add a site: filter. Better than Bingīrave Search has its own index and the results are pretty good given it's only been around for a year or so. The only notable alternatives to Google and Bing are some paid options (like Kagi) which need accounts and Brave Search. It doesn't need to create a good product when it can just force its billions of Windows users to use it. Microsoft was never all in on being a good search engine, it just wants to be a part of every possible market. I think it's down to it being reliant on Bing's index. Wikipedia should easily be prioritised and break through all the spam. It's gotten to a point where it doesn't even show relevant Wikipedia articles. However, over the last year or so, DuckDuckGo's search quality has tanked. If I needed Google's take on a search, it was a !g away. ![]() It did what I needed and its interface was clean and simple. At first it seemed great, a privacy-focused search engine which provides pretty good results. I've been using DuckDuckGo for a good few years now. ![]()
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