The company says it is using its own index, including anonymous contributions from the community to refine and improve its search results, and abstaining from renting its results from Bing or Google. Openness: Brave Search will soon be available to power other search engines.īrave Search offers an 'independence metric' which shows how close the results are to 'complete independence' from 'big tech.'.Seamlessness: best-in-class 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.Privacy: no tracking or profiling of users.The company also says that its search engine adheres to the following principles, which it says sets it apart from competitors: The company says over 100,000 people have signed up for beta access to Brave Search, and that Brave Browser has recently passed over 32 million active users.

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