In brief

  • Brave, the privacy-first web browser, is launching a search engine later this year.
  • The browser’s Basic Attention Token system asks users to view ads in exchange for crypto.

Brave, the privacy-first, crypto-friendly web browser, is gearing up to launch a search engine later this year.

Brave Search is the company’s attempt to take a bite out of Google’s dominance—currently, Google’s search engine has 92% market share.

In a press release, the company said it’s building the search function around a recent acquisition: a project called Tailcat, which was developed by the team behind the now-defunct Cliqz search engine. Brave Search will be powered by Tailcat’s own independent index of websites, and won’t collect IP addresses or personalize results based on identifying information, as Google does.

Per Wired, Brave Search is also developing a “Goggles” function, which can filter out certain kinds of results.

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