Brave Search Reached Huge 1-year Milestone
Brave announced that their 'Brave Search' Passed 2.5 Billion Queries in Its First Year. A really fast ramp up to reach this number of queries. Oddly enough Brave kept this search in 'Beta' phase for an entire year and still had outstanding success. The Beta phase is over and a new feature allows searchers to rank their own results.
Brave Core Principals:
- Independence: We serve results from our own built-from-scratch index of the Web
- Innovation - one example is Discussions which were added this past Spring, to bring conversations in/around query topics
- Privacy: We don’t track you, your searches, or your clicks
- Transparency: We don’t censor, bias, filter, or downrank results (unless legally required to)
- Seamlessness: Brave can offer a best-in-class integration between the browser and search—from personalization to instant results as you type—without compromising privacy
- User-first: We put you first, not the advertising or data industries
How is Brave Search stacking up against the industry titans? You tell me, it took Duckduckgo 4 years to hit 2.5M queries and it took Google over a year to reach this milestone. Their peak search query level hit 14.1M in one day
What is it - Last year your favorite web browser released their own web search engine - appropriately called Brave Search - you can find it here:
How does Brave Search protect your privacy?
- Anonymous local results: A way for Brave Search to serve localized search results (e.g. for the query “restaurants near me”) without knowing your physical location or broadcasting your IP address.
- Fallback mixing: An anonymous way for Brave to check Google in cases where our index isn’t complete or refined enough (especially for “long-tail” queries), and “mix” the results for you.
- Listening to your feedback: We have a strong community of Brave Search users who provide feedback, requests, and suggestions on everything from results, features, infoboxes and widgets, and more. And we act on as much of this feedback as we can.
- The Web Discovery Project: A privacy-preserving way for users to anonymously contribute browsing data, and thus improve the coverage and quality of Brave Search.
Summary Brave is always protecting your privacy at every turn! Now you too can leverage their search engine and be certain this is not just new window dressings on a search engine.
Disclaimer - I am not an employee nor an agent of Brave, although it sounds super exciting!
