In the following months, more nations will be turned over. Brave Search will take the position of Google in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, as well as Qwant in France and DuckDuckGo in Germany. The update will influence which search engine is utilized via the browser’s address bar for new users.
Brave is introducing a new opt-in method for users to submit data and help improve its search results.īrave, the privacy-focused browser that disables third-party advertisements and trackers by default, has announced that it will utilize its own search engine by default. Brave says that as of September 2021, their browser had almost 40 million monthly active users. 
Brave has announced that it will utilize its own search engine by default. Unlike Google, whose entire business model is built on serving personalised ads, privacy-focused search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Brave only serve non-personalised, contextual ads.ĭuckDuckGo also released a lightweight mobile app on both Android and iOS last year, that focused on preventing cross-site tracking on the web. The search engine currently does not display ads, but the company plans to display ads in the future on the free tier. Initially, the brave search engine will be available in five countries: Germany, the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, while the Brave desktop browser version 1.31, Android browser version 1.31 and the iOS browser version 1.32 will ship with the new Brave search engine. Our users are pleased with the comprehensive privacy solution that Brave Search provides against Big Tech by being integrated into our browser,” “Brave Search has grown significantly since its release last June, with nearly 80 million queries per month. “As we know from experience in many browsers, the default setting is crucial for adoption, and Brave Search has reached the quality and critical mass needed to become our default search option, and to offer our users a seamless privacy-by-default online experience,” said Brendan Eich, Co-founder and CEO of Brave in a statement. However, unlike Chrome, Brave has built up a reputation for being a privacy-focused browser. In a blog post, the company announced that the Brave Search-which was offered early this year as a public beta-will be set as the default search engine for new users who install the browser for the first time.Įxisting users will also be asked if they want to switch, while Google and other alternatives will continue to be available for users who don’t want to use Brave’s search engine.īrave is built on Chromium, which shares much of the core features with Google’s dominant Chrome browser. 
Brave, one of the popular browsers that offer privacy-focused features has ditched Google as its default search engine for its own homegrown search engine.
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