Well, according to the launch announcement, Brave is using its own indexing service, unless you opt-in to mix anonymized Google results to help them compare how they’re doing. To me it didn’t sound like anything controversial.

They do, but they’re up front with you about exactly what they collect, and you may absolutely turn it off in the search settings. We also don’t transmit information to the web that could be used to profile you or track you or learn anything about you. We don’t collect personal information about you, your device or your searches. Their Privacy Policy is available for review, and starts out as follows.īrave Search is designed to be private by default. Overall, I think it’s pretty good now and likely to improve as time goes on. (Unfortunately GNOME Web defaults to DuckDuckGo for some paltry sum of money, as many minor Web browsers do.)īrave Search doesn’t always return the results you would like, but thanks to GNOME Web listing all search engines as you type, and supporting bangs (like !g for google), it’s easy to make exceptions just once! I can’t imagine how it could be worse for your privacy than DuckDuckGo, which we know tracks people and is a front for Microsoft Bing. I’ll make it easy for you.Īfter adding the entry, just make sure it’s selected as the default, and then search from the address bar as you normally would. Scroll down and click on Add Search Engine.Īnd add the information the way I have it shown. Regardless of the reason, the user can easily add Brave Search by clicking on the “hamburger menu”. GNOME Web claims to be both Safari and running on “Linux”, by default. Well, most likely this is happening because you’re not using a major Web browser, or maybe Safari doesn’t allow the user to add search engines. Perhaps you hop around browsers like I do and want to use Brave Search in GNOME Web, but all you get when you ask Brave how to add it is this. A new search engine from the company that makes the Brave Web browser.

In this article, we explore Brave Search. How to add Brave Search to GNOME Web and switch from DuckDuckGo.

Add duckduckgo to brave