
The search team released a white paper on Goggles, detailing its features and showcasing how these work using examples.

Sample of Brave Search query results using Goggle "Essentially, Goggles will act as a re-ranking option on top of the Brave Search index." "Goggles will enable anyone, or any community of people, to create sets of rules and filters to constrain the searchable space and / or alter the ordering of search results," the browser company explains. The company has already prepared some demos to try. Going gaga over Gogglesīrave also announced a new Brave Search results curation feature called "Goggles," which interested users can start testing out right now. But Goggles, a new feature, may help to mitigate this. While Brave is quick to claim that its query algorithms are unbiased, The Verge pointed out that all algorithms have inherent biases. Users who click these ads are rewarded 70 percent of the ad revenue. This will involve Brave Ads, Brave's adtech platform. Brave's blogīrave Search is currently ad-free, but the company has plans to work on an ad-supported version of Search. The Web needs multiple search providers-without choice there’s no freedom. Search engines that depend too much, or exclusively, on Big Tech are subject to their censorship, biases, and editorial decisions. The company admitted, however, that they will be pulling search results from other providers- Google in particular-if their index doesn't have enough data of its own.

According to Brave's blog, 92 percent of queries users receive are directly from Brave's search index. While Google enjoys a 92% market share, Brave has yet to break out of the search engine ranking's miniscule "other" category.īesides a loyal following, one reason for Brave Search's fast growth is likely that it (mostly) avoids using third-party search indexes, such as Google and Bing. However, as impressive as that is, Brave Search (and the other privacy search engine, DuckDuckGo) are still lightyears away from challenging Google's hegemony. That was a staggering increase in a year, from 8.1 million search queries to 411.7M by May 2022. In a recent announcement, the company said its search engine had passed 2.5 billion queries since its release a year earlier. In March 2021, the company launched Brave Search so it could use its own index to generate search results.

Its first product was the Brave Browser, a privacy-friendly, Chromium-based internet browser that automatically blocks ads and site trackers.

In May 2015, Mozilla alumni Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy launched Brave Software. To celebrate, the company says it is moving the search engine out of its beta phase to become the default search engine for all Brave browser users. Brave Search, Brave Software's privacy search engine, just turned one.
