It tends to be slightly slower than major search engines, however. Brave's search site doesn’t let you earn rewards based on your search volume, but that’s planned for later updates. It lets you filter your search by Image, Video, and News search, but not maps or music. When I enter a search in Brave Search, my ad-and-tracker blocker, uBlock, doesn’t report anything to block.īrave search is still in beta, though it’s perfectly functional and delivers apt results. Ever.” There’s no account to sign into, your IP address is used to localize results but isn’t stored, and you can turn off that access.
According to Brave, “We don’t track you, your searches, or your clicks. For example, if you search for “Windows 11 review” on Bing, our PCMag review shows up in the fourth position, while Google has it in the number-one slot.Ĭoming from the innovative creators of the privacy-focused Brave web browser, Brave Search claims “unmatched privacy.” In my testing using the EFF’s Cover Your Tracks Tools, the Brave browser was the most private, so the claim has some weight behind it. Websites have worked hard to game Google’s algorithm specifically so that their sites appear higher on the result page. Search results can, however, differ among these services.
Indeed, several of the sites included below use privatized results from Bing and Google, though some have done the work of building their own web-crawling site indexes. You’re just as likely to find what you’re looking for with any search engine as you are with Google. Nowadays, you’d be hard-pressed to find much difference in the results generated by one site versus another. In earlier days, the quality of web search results was a real issue. Plus, some alternative search engines offer other benefits, such as rewards or donations to worthy causes based on how much you search. For one, you can avoid the privacy concerns that come with a mammoth corporation knowing so much about you from your searches and web activity. You don’t have to use Google to google, and there are plenty of reasons not to. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.
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