Brave, a company that produces its own web browser and search engine with a focus on user privacy, has decided to discontinue its use of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. This decision was announced on Thursday in Brave’s company blog, acknowledging that the use of third party search APIs have recently seen an increase in registration fees, which they considered to be “unprecedented”.
Brave Search is their flagship search engine that previously relied on Bing for only 7 percent of its search results. At its inception, Brave Search only used third party search engines for about 13 percent of all queries. With Bing fully removed, Brave Search will now solely rely on its own index. However, users may choose to utilize Google search results as a backup, but this won’t be necessary for the majority of search needs.
Development of Brave Search tool is ongoing with the addition of Summarizer AI searching and Brave Search API. Both of these serve to automate web searching with more efficient results. Since its establishment, Brave Search has become the fastest growing search engine since Bing and currently averages over 22 million queries per day.
Brave is a company founded by CEO Brendan Eich in 2015. It created a specialized browser for secure web browsing, capable of contending against data collection. This browser has grown to serve 25 million monthly active users, it blocks ads and trackers from collaborating with your browsing activity from unknown sources.
