In a statement accompanying the release, CEO Brendan Eich lauded Brave Search as 'the industry’s most private search engine, as well as the only independent search engine.' Unlike other search engines that either track users or don't offer their own indexes, Eich said, the search engine offers 'a new way to get relevant results with a community-powered index, while guaranteeing privacy.' Brave's crypto-powered privacy crusadeīrave Search is the latest in a range of privacy-preserving products from the company, most notably its crypto-powered Brave Browser. Brave also plans to make its index available 'to power other search engines.' To that end, the search engine intends to launch an ad-free paid search option alongside its ad-supported free offering.įuture features will include Goggles, a way to filter results according to the user's own preferences, with users able to share their curated ranking models with the community. Instead, it uses Tailcat's own independent index of websites, and is built around the philosophy that 'the user comes first, not the advertising and data industries.'

In keeping with the project's privacy-first ethos, the search engine offers 'fully anonymous search'-it doesn't collect users' IP addresses or personalize results based on identifying information as Google does.

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