The privacy-focused web browser and search engine, Brave, recently declared that it will no longer use Microsoft’s search engine Bing as a source for its web searches. The announcement follows Microsoft’s price raising of its search Application Programming Interface (API). Brave stated that the rate hike was “unprecedented” and signaled a potential discontinuation of the Bing search service. In order to fill in the gap of the discontinued service, Brave has created its own search engine index. The index is known as Brave Search, and it is the default Brave search engine.
Brave Search will now solely depend on its index with 100% of the results from Brave Index as its source. Brave Search offers user the ease of finding search results without worrying about the effects of Microsoft Bing’s abolition. Additionally, Brave allows for its users to integrate Google search results as an alternative to Brave Index, if necessary. Users may also choose to join Brave’s Web Discovery project which helps the browser create its index.
In the future, Brave is planning to make available a Brave Search API to power other search applications. Through this, development companies and developers will be able to create their own search engines that compete in terms of quality with massive tech companies.
Brave is a web browser software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded by Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy in 2015. It is known for its privacy-focused tools such as its built-in ad blocker, script blocker and tracker prevention. Brendan Eich, Brave’s CEO, is the covered of JavaScript and the co-founder of Mozilla Firefox. Brian Bondy joined Mozilla Firefox as a Core Engineer before he helped with the founding of Brave. He is also the engineering lead at Brave. Both of them are committed towards providing an open source, privacy-focused web browser.
