It has a 70% and 92% market share for Google Chrome and Google Search, respectively. Moreover, this relies on tracking users across sites. This service, combined with the Brave web browser, is called the first independent, privacy-preserving alternative to Google Chrome and Google Search. This is the necessary step to make sure that user privacy is not compromised to fuel the surveillance economy.Īlso, Brave will rebrand Tailcat as Brave Search. Nevertheless, Brave’s mission is to place the user first and to integrate privacy-preserving search into the platform. More so, there is more demand for real privacy solutions in order to escape Big Tech’s invasive practices. Even more, Brave CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich said that greater demand can be expected for Brave in 2021. However, Brave increased from 11 million monthly active users to over 25 million. Moreover, Brave has raised significantly over the past year.

Tailcat will be rebranded as Brave Search.īrave has announced that it has acquired the open search engine Tailcat and will integrate it into its desktop and mobile web browsers.It has raised from 11M monthly active users to over 25M.Brave launches its own search engine using ex-Cliqz devs & tech.Google has said for years and years it does not use click data because it finds it a poor metric for search.Posted on Ma(June 14, 2021), 5:06 pm by Cianna Joy 2 years ago | 2 mins read Market News I wonder how helpful click data is for a search engine like Brave? Interesting, in order to provide the highest quality & most relevant results, Brave's Web Discovery Project looks at -> Search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.' - Glenn Gabe October 20, 2021 Which sites only allow crawling by the Google search botĭirect Hit, a search engine pre-2000, used click data for ranking purposes.How often a search result is clicked for a given keyword.How recent searches are for those keywords.How closely search results match the search keywords (matching to exact words, parts of words, or synonyms).The thing is, Brave documented how it does ranking and it actually said it uses click data for ranking purposes.īrave documented some of what it uses in its ranking algorithm, at a higher level. Brave made some big news the other week when it announced it is replacing Google Search as the default in its Brave browser with its own search engine.

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