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Still in the settings, you may disable the collection of anonymous usage metrics, and Google fallback mixing. You can turn this off in the settings or set a location manually that you want to be used as your location. Brave uses the IP but won't share it or store it.

when you search for restaurants near me, a location needs to be known as results would not make sense otherwise.

Some queries work only if the location is known, e.g. Brave uses what it calls anonymous local results by default where necessary. Select the cogwheel icon on the search results page to display the number of results that come from Brave's own index (in percent).Īnother interesting feature of Brave Search is the option to set a location manually. One interesting feature of Brave Search is that it may fill the results using data from third-party search engines, if its own set of data is not sufficient. You find options to switch from the "all" results listing to images, news or videos, and may filter results by country, safe search or time. The search results page resembles that of other search engines as well. You may type a search query, get suggestions, and will get results once you start the search. Open: Other search engines may use Brave Search.īrave Search works like other search engines when you open it.Seamless: integration with the Brave Browser.Transparent: Secret methods or algorithms won't be used to bias results.Independent: Brave Search will use anonymized contributions to improve and refine Brave Search.An ad-free paid search option will also become available. Choice: Private ads will come to search, similarly to how they are handled in Brave Browser.User-First: Users come first, not advertising or data industries.Private: does not track or profile users.The search engine does not record user IP addresses or will use personally identifiable information to change the search results.īrave Search is developed using the same principles as the Brave browser: Tailcat uses its own independent index, and that sets its apart from third-party solutions such as DuckDuckGo or Startpage, which rely on the products of Big Tech companies such as Bing or Google.īrave promises that its Search engine will provide users with quality results, but without compromising user security. Brave announced that it acquired Tailcat, an open search engine developed by "by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz.

To better understand what Brave Search offers, one has to go back to March 2021. Anyone may open Brave Search to use the search engine It is a beta product right now, but should work fine in many cases. A private beta launched some time ago and today marks the end of that private beta period.