Search engines - Brave Search
Features
Search results
Brave is a private independent search engine providing text, images, videos, news and maps search results with Google fallback mixing when their index falls short.
Instant Answers
Instant answers appears in the search engine page itself and can be useful for calculations, unit / currency conversion, definition, translation, weather maps or factual information.
Anti-Features
AI
Unfortunately it comes with some unwarranted AI tools like AI answers for summarization, Ask Brave for conversation, features snippets, AI-powered descriptions.
Ads
And ads which records clicks, views and IP-based location.
Access
VPN and Tor
Users can easily access it using a VPN or Tor with an onion address.
JavaScript optional
And can use it without JavaScript although with limited functionality. Expect for Tor users in strict mode since the anti-bot Captcha requires WebAssembly.
Configuration
Configuration is stored in cookies and local storage. Users should disable disable answer with AI, anonymous local result and usage metrics.
Location
United States is based in the United States, where users are subjected to poor privacy laws.
Policy privacy
It does not collect nor transmit personally identifiable information about users, devices and their search but do log opt-in anonymous aggregated metrics to improve search such as the number of visits and device used. IP addresses are temporarily processed to detect and prevent bots.