But they require your location to know where you are to answer what is near you. Local search results are essential, especially when you need to find restaurants or stores nearby. This helps improve the suggestions and results on Brave search and also helps you discover what you were looking for easily. It allows Brave to search your query separately on Google and mix some of their search results with Brave search.
Brave knows this, which is why they’ve added Google Fallback Mixing.
Change Region (Limited number of countries supported) Google Fallback Mixingīrave Search is still in its Beta stage, so, understandably, the results will not be as refined as Google, which has dominated this space for decades.Change preferred language (Only 9 language supported as of now).You can click the cog (settings) icon on the search engine page to make the following customizations: Customizing Brave Searchīrave search offers limited but necessary customization options that help make your searches more relevant to you along with some advanced options that we will discuss in detail. It costs 3$ per month and might be a bit steep but It helps support this project and also saves you from ads although they won’t be as annoying as you find on Google.
Brave Search Premiumīrave search will show ads similar to Google search, but you can disable by buying their Premium subscription. Note that while Brave is independent of Google and Bing in web search, it does rely on Bing for image search results. Other privacy-based search engines rely on other search engines like Google or Bing, but that’s not the case with Brave. The Search Engine uses the Web Discovery Project that uses anonymous user data (that users can opt-out of) to create its unique Independent index to show search results. It is entirely independent of other search engines, although it does give you an option to search from Google or Bing if you do not find relevant search results. How Does Brave Search Work?īrave Search does not track its users, their search history, or what website they have been visiting. Let’s explore more about the specific features which you can find in Brave Search that make it stand out among other search engines. The choice to make it default was necessary to increase its adoption, and it has already led to nearly 300 million queries per month. It also comes as a default search engine in Brave browsers in certain regions. Initially, it was in Private Beta but became available for everyone in early 2021. This makes it a transparent and ideal choice for people who care about their privacy. It is open-source and anyone can look into its code for malicious practices.
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