Brave Search Ads report massive 1500% growth in click volume alongside 80% increase in organic searches in 2024
Feb 26, 2025
Last year we launched Brave Search Ads in multiple countries. Today we share an update and upcoming plans for expansion.
Introducing Rerank: a fast, easy way for users to customize Brave Search rankings
Jan 23, 2025
Today we're excited to announce Rerank, a simple yet powerful feature to customize search rankings by boosting or removing domains from search results.
Announcing chat mode, a conversational chat experience that expands the ability of Brave Search and its Answer with AI
Nov 21, 2024
This new feature offers the option to ask follow-up questions from the basis of an initial query to Brave Search.
Brave Search now features its AI-powered CodeLLM for programming-related queries
Jan 10, 2024
CodeLLM is aimed at programming queries, combining the depth and quality of search results with the summarization and explainability power of large language models.
Brave releases its Search API, bringing independence and competition to the search landscape
May 30, 2023
Today, Brave is excited to announce the release of the Brave Search API, making the backbone of Brave Search available to companies and developers worldwide…
Brave Search removes last remnant of Bing from search results page, achieving 100% independence and providing real alternative to Big Tech search
Apr 27, 2023
Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.
Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results
Mar 2, 2023
The Summarizer provides concise answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, solely based on Web search results.
Brave Search passes 2.5 billion queries in its first year, and debuts Goggles feature that allows users to choose their own search rankings
Jun 22, 2022
Private, independent search engine exits beta phase on its first anniversary, with innovative features that help users de-Google their search
Introducing Discussions: Real Human Answers in Search Results
Apr 20, 2022
Brave is announcing an exciting new feature of Brave Search. It's called Discussions, and it’s now available on desktop and mobile.
Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser
Oct 19, 2021
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
Brave Search beta now available in Brave browser, offering users the first independent privacy search/browser alternative to big tech
Jun 22, 2021
Starting today, users have a new independent option for search which gives them unmatched privacy. Brave Search is built on top of a completely independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks.
Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop
Mar 3, 2021
Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.
