Brave Browser Replaces Google with Brave Search as Default

[brotherhood of LAN]

Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser

[brave.com...]

[engine]

It's good to see these steps, but I can't help but think it has more than a mountain to climb.

Usage share of all browsers
Browser (Source, StatCounter May 2021)
Chrome 64.75%
Safari 18.43%
Edge 3.37%
Firefox 3.36%
Samsung Internet 3.23%
Opera 2.31%
IE 0.62%
Others 4.55%

From that article...

Brave Search is currently not displaying ads, but the free version of Brave Search will soon be ad-supported. Brave Search will also offer an ad-free Premium version in the near future.

It'll need to move on that to earn income to keep up the efforts.

[james007]

It's at [search.brave.com...] and works well.

Absolutely zero information about how it crawls, what it supports, why some results have images and others don't, etc. But it seems to do a lot with schema, which is nice to see.

I don't use Brave (for a few opinionated reasons) but I've set it as a default search engine in Chrome, so let's see what that experience is like...

[brotherhood of LAN]

how it crawls

You might find this interesting: [brave.com...] - the section labelled 'Web Discovery Project', the link parser here strips out the anchor.

It is based on the Cliqz/Tailcat technology they acquired this year. It may not be their whole crawling methodology, but definitely a major part of it.

[not2easy]

That link parsing problem is still around. But you can paste the link to your browser's address bar to bypass that problem and go right to it:
https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#web-discovery-project