Following a public beta for its new search engine again in June, Brave Software has introduced that Brave Search is now formally accessible.
Beginning immediately, the corporate's search engine would be the default for brand spanking new Brave Browser customers within the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. The firm's search engine additionally replaces Qwant in France and DuckDuckGo in Germany because the default search engine for customers of its browser in these nations.
While present Brave customers will preserve their chosen search engine because the default, they'll additionally set Brave Search because the default search engine if they like. To accomplish that, customers will want to handle their search engine settings on Brave for Desktop, Android and iOS.
CEO and co-founder of Brave, Brendan Eich defined in a press launch how Brave Search supplies a more privacy-focused various to different search engines, saying:
“Brave Search has grown significantly since its release last June, with nearly 80 million queries per month. Our users are pleased with the comprehensive privacy solution that Brave Search provides against Big Tech by being integrated into our browser. 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.”
In addition to making Brave Search the default in its browser, Brave Software can be launching a privacy-preserving system for customers to anonymously contribute information to assist enhance its search index known as the Web Discovery Project (WDP).
Users will want to opt-in to the WDP and the brand new venture protects person privateness and anonymity by design in order that contributed information can't be linked to them or their units in addition to to a set of customers to forestall deanonymization.
At the identical time, the WDP represents a elementary shift in how a search index is constructed to serve related outcomes to Brave Search customers. Unlike with different search suppliers, the WDP is designed in such a manner that all the information it receives is unlinkable which makes it inconceivable to construct profiles or classes of venture contributors.
In order for a URL to be despatched to the venture it wants to visited independently by a lot of folks and that is achieved through the use of the STAR cryptographic protocol. The WDP additionally runs routinely whereas a person is searching the online so it requires no effort on the a part of contributors.
Interested customers can take a look at out Brave Search for themselves and contribute to the Web Discovery Project by upgrading Brave Browser to the newest model or heading to search.courageous.com within the browser of their alternative.
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