Once launched, the service will be a direct competitor with DuckDuckGo, the only major privacy-preserving search engine on the market today. In addition, once the service launches later this year, Brave said it plans to make it available for other browsers as well. 'Unlike older search engines that track and profile users, and newer search engines that are mostly a skin on older engines and don't have their own indexes, Brave Search offers a new way to get relevant results with a community-powered index, while guaranteeing privacy,' Eich said.īrave said its new search engine has already been tested by more than 100,000 users via closed access trials, and the upcoming beta period will help put the final polish for the official launch later this year.įuture plans include showing ads, but they will be based on the company's privacy-preserving Brave Ads systems, and a paid option to hide all ads will also be available.

Brave initially announced Brave Search in March, after the company acquired Tailcat, an open search engine developed by the team who previously developed the search engine for the now-defunct Cliqz web browser.īrave CEO Brendan Eich called it 'the industry's most private search engine.' Work on this new service has been going on for the past three months.

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