![]() ![]() Big Tech search providers collect data from users without asking or notifying users, to continuously grow their indexes-the list of billions of web pages they draw from to deliver results-and to ensure results are relevant and never stale. It is a major step forward from the typical server-side aggregation used by the industry. The WDP represents a fundamental shift in how a search index is built to serve relevant results for users. The WDP is a strictly opt-in feature and protects user privacy and anonymity by design, so that contributed data cannot be linked to individuals or their devices, and cannot be linked together for a user or set of users this prevents deanonymization. “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.”īrave Search is also launching the Web Discovery Project (WDP), a privacy-preserving system for users to anonymously contribute data to improve Brave Search coverage and quality, and its independence and competitiveness against Big Tech alternatives. Our users are pleased with the comprehensive privacy solution that Brave Search provides against Big Tech by being integrated into our browser,” said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave. “Brave Search has grown significantly since its release last June, with nearly 80 million queries per month. Brave Search will also offer an ad-free Premium version in the near future. īrave Search is currently not displaying ads, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported. Brave Search is also available in any other browser at. Brave users can easily choose a different search option if they prefer by managing their search engine settings. Today’s Brave desktop browser update (version 1.31), as well as the Brave Android app (version 1.31) and the Brave iOS app (version 1.32) all automatically offer Brave Search as the default for new users in these five countries, with fully localized versions in non-English geographies. Existing Brave users will keep their chosen search engine default, and can set Brave Search as the default search engine in Brave or most other major browsers. Privacy-preserving Brave Search now replaces Google as the default search engine used in the address bar for new Brave users in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom Brave Search as default also replaces Qwant in France, and DuckDuckGo in Germany, with more geographies to be added in the next several months. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks. Google is not particularly known for its privacy which is understandable that Brave is opting for its own inhouse search engine.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. In other words, existing users will still have their default search engine as Google or whatever you set it to be. However, if it happens that the search engine you prefer is not present, there is an option at the bottom of the list of search engines to add it right in front of the “other search engines”.Īt the end of the day, Brave’s change is only effective on subsequent installation of the browser and not existing users. Read More: What are Google Chrome Flags and how to turn them onįurthermore, if you decide not to choose Google as your search engine of choice, there are other options there you can choose from. Shortcut: You can just type “brave://settings/searchEngines” into the address bar and skip steps 1 to 3. Step 4: Under “Default search engines”, click on the three dots in front of the search engine you want as default which in this case is Google and click on “Make deault”. ![]() Step 3: Select “Search engine” and click on “manage search engine”.Step 2: Enter settings close to the bottom of the menu list.Step 1: Click on the menu icon at the top right corner.How to make Google the default search engine on Brave Steps to make Google your default browser. ![]()
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