

The company announced in June that it would build a search engine supported by the acquisition of Tailcat - an open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for All automatically offer Brave Search as the default for new users in these five countries, with fully local versions in non-English geographies.īrave Search currently does not display ads, but the free version will become ad-supported soon.īrave Search will also offer an ad-free Premium version in the near Updates are for update version 1.31 as well as the Brave Android app, versionġ.31, and the Brave iOS app, version 1.32.

Users can keep their existing search engine setting or select another competitor.īrave Search has grown to 80 million queries monthly since June 2021.Ĭompany said Brave Search is built on top of an independent index, and does not track users, searches, or clicks.

The change in default search engine becomes available across desktop as Other countries will see the switch in the coming months. Succeed DuckDuckGo in Germany, and Qwant in France. The announcement, made Tuesday, means Brave replaces Google in the U.S., the U.K. Brave Search has replaced Google as the default search
