Brave Search

Brave releases its Search API, bringing independence and competition to the search landscape

May 30, 2023

Today, Brave is excited to announce the release of the Brave Search API, making the backbone of Brave Search available to companies and developers worldwide…

Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search results page, achieving 100% independence and providing real alternative to Big Tech search

Apr 27, 2023

Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.

Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results

Mar 2, 2023

The Summarizer provides concise answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, solely based on Web search results.

Brave Search passes 2.5 billion queries in its first year, and debuts Goggles feature that allows users to choose their own search rankings

Jun 22, 2022

Private, independent search engine exits beta phase on its first anniversary, with innovative features that help users de-Google their search

Introducing Discussions: Real Human Answers in Search Results

Apr 20, 2022

Brave is announcing an exciting new feature of Brave Search. It's called Discussions, and it’s now available on desktop and mobile.

Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser

Oct 19, 2021

Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.

Brave Search beta now available in Brave browser, offering users the first independent privacy search/browser alternative to big tech

Jun 22, 2021

Starting today, users have a new independent option for search which gives them unmatched privacy. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.

Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop

Mar 3, 2021

Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.