This may reduce the independence metric but will not compromise user privacy. Most queries are currently handled by Brave’s search index but for some features, like searching for images, Brave Search will fetch results from Microsoft Bing. The company calls this the industry’s first search independent metric. Openness: Brave Search will soon be available to power other search engines.īrave is so confident in its ability to deliver search results independently that it displays the ratio of results coming exclusively from its own index. After releasing its open-source web browser in 2019, Brave Software is expanding its secure internet experience with a search engine.Seamlessness: integration between the browser and search without compromising privacy, from personalization to instant results as the user types.Transparency: no secret methods or algorithms to bias results, and soon, community-curated open ranking models to ensure diversity and prevent algorithmic biases and outright censorship.Choice: soon, options for ad-free paid search and ad-supported search.Independence: Brave has its own search index for answering common queries privately without reliance on other providers.User-first: the user comes first, not the advertising and data industries.Goggles enable anyone, or any community of people, to create sets of rules and filters to constrain the searchable. Privacy: no tracking or profiling of users. Goggles is a beta feature of Brave Search.To the average user, the two browsers are near-indistinguishable. Brave Search focuses on providing a similar experience that Google Search provides.

Those not working at the SEO coalface will be increasingly advised / recommended to use Brave instead of Chrome by those who are.Īny initial reservations will be easily waved away because.

Those working at the SEO coalface will switch from Chrome to Brave - because there's really no downside. If I've understood this correctly, this is really clever marketing for the Brave browser, if it means that people who want webpages and websites (and not necessarily their own) to climb the SERPs can influence that climb by browsing the web using Brave. Brave has released a public beta version of its own privacy-focused search engine, designed to go head-to-head with Google, called Brave Search, which will become the default search. I wonder if they (can) use their browser, to index on the fly, pages visited by the users. Added: I’ve been told that Brave is extending its Tailcat index off the queries and clicks of the browser - an advantage of having the SE integrated with browser and mixing in third party results.

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