In one case where we felt motivated to take our query elsewhere, the Brave Search results page's "Find elsewhere" link presented the following prompt seeking permission to submit the keywords to Google: "For queries where Brave Search is not yet refined, your browser will anonymously check Google for the same query, mix the results for you and send the query data back to us so we can improve Brave Search for everyone."īrave presents its independent index as a point of differentiation with DuckDuckGo, though it may not be 100 per cent independent. The Register has not had the opportunity to test it thoroughly but we found it returned useful results for most queries we tried. In its current form, Brave Search works pretty well. But it also provides a way to make queries though Google, Bing, and other search services in the form of a "Find elsewhere" section below its homegrown search results list. Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGoīrave Search uses on its own community-generated index, based on the Tailcat search engine acquired from unsuccessful Chrome-challenger Cliqz.What the FLoC? Browser makers queue up to decry Google's latest ad-targeting initiative as invasive tracking.Ex-Brave staffer launches GDPR sueball in Germany over tech giants' real-time bidding for ad inventory.Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version.
DuckDuckGo says it uses some 400 different sources to inform its search index, though its reliance on Microsoft Bing became evident when the disappearance of a politically sensitive image in Redmond's product earlier this month was reflected in DuckDuckGo and other alternative search engines.
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