Hence, Brave has also launched the Web Discovery Project along with this change to let users opt-in to contribute anonymous data to help improve the search results.Īs of now, Brave Search does not include any advertisements. With the new default selection, Brave Search should have the potential to receive more feedback on its search result index and quality. Also, if you do not belong to one of the regions mentioned above, you need to change the default search engine to Brave Search, if you prefer it over Google. If you already use Brave, your default search engine will not be changed automatically. Shortly, this change will be happening for more regions as well. The change is only for new users and is limited to a few countries (United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom).īrave Search also replaces Qwant and DuckDuckGo in France and Germany, respectively. Google pays a lot of good money when it comes to keeping its search engine as the default in many web browsers.īut, it seems that Brave plans to take on Google’s search engine by utilizing its offering ( Brave Search) to replace it as the default search engine.Ĭonsidering Brave Search is still in the beta phase, it is a bold move. However, that is about to change with the recent announcement of Brave abandoning Google to favor its privacy-respecting search engine Brave Search.

The browser uses Google as the default search engine for most of the regions. Brave is one of the best web browsers available for Linux.

Brave default search engine