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Brave Search

Provides private, user-focused search using a proprietary index, ensuring no tracking, transparent ranking, anonymous use, seamless browser integration, both ad-free and ad-supported models, open ranking initiatives, and image search on all platforms.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  Instant Answers
  2.  Independent Searching
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Bangs
  6.  Independent search index
  7.  No registration required
  8.  No Logs
  9.  Bypass Censorship
  10.  Full-Text Search
  11.  Block Trackers

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Brave Search is widely valued for privacy, an independent index, and features such as Goggles, !bangs, Discussions, and AI answers. Several users find its results accurate enough for daily use, while others report poor relevance, limited search controls, weak international or non-English results, and difficulty finding older or news content. It remains less refined than Google, though some appreciate its independence and continued improvement.
Top Positive Comment
BubbleTea
3

Great private search. It finds what I need most of the time and doesn't censor my results.

It's a bit slower than DuckDuckGo and sometimes I'd have to fall back on Startpage Search If I really can't find something but overall, it's decent.

Sam Lander

How do you know it is privacy-focused or doesn't censor or downrank results if it is not open-source?

Top Negative Comment
DaRootBeer1231
5

I really do appriciate Brave trying to break into this sphere, as having Google and Bing being the only major players with an actual full search index sucks. With that said, holy crap Brave Search isn't good. It just never has anything useful, and it feels like rather than making sure that the search results are good, they're instead focusing on random one-off ideas like Goggles or whatever. I want to see them do well but after three times of trying to switch over to it and it not going well, I just have to give up.

Guest
1

Better than Google Search and 100% private

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deneko
0

It has a terrible synchronization system; we can't create and log in with a username and password. There is no past synchronization on all devices.

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RemovedUser
1

A good alternative, I think it handles better keyword search than many hardcore privacy-focused search engines, and it's very cool that it uses its own index.

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Asumeh
1

Amazing privacy-focused search engine as it has an independent search index, !bangs, Discussions, and Answer with AI and chat mode (both with equally heavy emphasis on privacy).

Just a few minor gripes:

  • Not open-source
  • Occasionally one non-intrusive ad for some search queries (hence why it has a Premium subscription available)
  • Anonymous usage metrics is enabled by default
panoptes
-2

the AI assistant they have is very biased just like Goolge, I would not recommend it

Casper Rivers

To whom or what? This is a useless review.

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What is Brave Search?

Brave Search is a search engine that doesn't track users, search queries, or click activity. Available globally in beta version across all Brave browsers, it can also be accessed from any web browser and will soon become the default search engine in the Brave browser.

Brave Search's main features include a focus on privacy, a user-first approach, and independence through its own search index. It offers options for ad-free paid search and ad-supported search, transparency, and seamless integration between the browser and search. It also plans to make Brave Search available to power other search engines in the future.

Brave Search uses its own index and offers anonymous search, transparency in search result ranking, and integration with a privacy-preserving browser on both desktop and mobile platforms. It introduces a search independence metric that shows the ratio of results sourced exclusively from Brave’s index. This metric is privately derived using the user's browser as user profiles are not created. Users can use this metric to confirm the independence of their results.

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