Meanwhile, Brave unveiled a new tool last week - Goggles - that enables users to customize their own searches more effectively:īrave has some demos ready for users to try today, including ones that prioritize posts from smaller tech blogs and filter out posts from the 1,000 most-viewed sites on the web. But if anyone can do it, why not the company with courage in its name?” Others with deeper pockets and better name recognition have tried to slay the search giant, only to end up an afterthought.

Even a user who prefers another search engine might, if stymied, find it useful to try Brave, for a fresh look at the trail.Ĭarpenter comments in an e-newsletter, “Brave’s odds of threatening Google’s dominance are pretty long. Brave established a third English language search dataset. Also, as web developer Nathan Jacobson has pointed out, only two major English language indexes exist - Google’s and Bing’s and most search “alternatives” are using those datasets.

But, as Carpenter reports, that search engine appears to have compromised its no-tracking policy by allowing Microsoft a carve-out. Now, DuckDuckGo, which also claims it doesn’t track users, reported 35.3 billion queries in 2021.

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