As Brave search is still new and evolving so I hope it improves.

Using Startpage is another option but it is owned by an advertising company so there are some concerns there.Īn issue I am having with Brave Search that the dark theme in Search doesnt have good enough contrast between the background and the text. Please see this documentation for instructions on how to set Brave Search as the default search engine in your browser. While I admire their 'objective' results but they are somewhat inconvenient in comparison to Google.Įven though my work and daily usage dont require me to have really specific result but still the change from Google to DDG or Brave Search is being a bit hard for me.Įdit: After the discussion I am leaning towards Brave Search as many people suggested to use either bangs or enable 'Google fallback mixing' for anonymous google results within Brave Search. Brave Search, on the surface, functions just like any other search engine visit, enter your search query and view the results.

Choose ‘Settings’ from the list of choices that appear. I tried using Duck Duck Go & the recent Brave search. Launch Brave and select the navigation menu (three parallel lines) in the top-right corner. Brave search will replace Google in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Qwant in. This browser automatically blocks online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. I use Google in Brave and I know it defies the point of privacy but the search results Google provides are way above than any other platform. Brave, a free open-source and a privacy-focused browser is switching to its own search engine by default.

Brave browser preferences search engine