

Brave Search also couldn't find "tank man" at the time because the service sourced its image results from Microsoft Bing. As an example, the browser biz points to an incident two years ago when Bing briefly stopped serving search results for the Tiananmen Square "tank man," an inquiry that remains unwelcome in China. There are not many active public web search indexes: Google, Bing, and Brave in the US Baidu, Huawei (Petal), and Tencent (Sogou), among others, in China Yandex in Russia and Mojeek in the UK.īrave argues that having its own index frees the company from content decisions made by others. Brave takes the spring out of creepy bounce tracking.Brave roasts DuckDuckGo over Bing privacy exception.Brave Search leaves beta, offers Goggles for filtering, personalizing results.Brave sorry about coding snafu that sent search queries to affiliate links, insists practice is 'industry standard'.For example, DuckDuckGo relies mostly on Bing. And, as we noted above, Brave launched an API for its search service earlier this year.īy shifting to its own index for images and videos, Brave further differentiates its search offering from companies that essentially repackage Google and Bing. A service called Goggles that allows personal search result filtering followed in 2022. Mozilla Firefox, as a point of comparison, has about 187 million monthly active users.īrave Search debuted in 2021, offering text-based search results from an independent index. The Brave browser, we're told, currently has about 57.76 million monthly active users. "Whether it’s a matter of personal safety or personal preference, users should be able to discover content without their search engine reporting and profiling those results to a Big Tech company." "Brave Search is 100 percent private and anonymous, which sets a high bar for image/video search to meet," the developer said in a blog post provided earlier to The Register.
