A question like 'How many states in the USA' is answered while typing on Google (as a 'prediction'), where Brave search came up with a Wikipedia article in top position, requiring further clicks to get the information.Ī developer query like 'call to undefined function simplexml_load_file' successfully returns a Stack Overflow entry with helpful information. How good is Brave Search? Since many users are in the habit of using search for navigation, many searches are trivial, meaning 'take me to Apple' or similar. User data is still aggregated, but on the user's device, and when data is sent back to the Brave server, it omits any user identifier. The project aims to prevent linking records as belonging to the same person, to prevent profiling, 'by strictly prohibiting any user identifier.' 'Brave needs data to power its privacy search,' the project explains. 'Brave Search will also offer an ad-free Premium version in the near future,' the company said, though as yet no further details are available.īrave has also introduced the Web Discovery Project, a method of collecting user data (such as data on bad searches) while claiming to protect their privacy. Alternative search providers write letter to EU complaining that Google antitrust action achieved diddly-squatīrave search is currently ad-free, the bad news being that 'the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad supported,' according to a post yesterday.

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Immediately conducting a further search is one of the indicators of poor search results that can optionally be recorded to improve the engine. The search is smart in this respect since at the foot of the results is an option to 'find elsewhere', in our case offering Google, Bing or Mojeek (a UK-based independent search engine).

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