Today’s announcement has it that Brave launches its own image and video search engine, privacy-focused search engine and browser creator Brave is taking another step away from its reliance on other search providers.
According to the firm, this implies that users will no longer be required to leave Brave in order to access picture or video search results. Instead, the results will now be served straight from Brave Search’s own independent index.
This news comes after Brave said in April that it will no longer use Bing’s index, which had previously accounted for 7% of all query results.
According to Brave, the functionality that allows users to search for images and videos has been in development for a number of months, and the company has announced that its results will now also be made available via the Brave Search API, which was only recently released.
Before the debut, Brave search engine launches for users an option of conducting an alternative search for images or videos by redirecting them to Bing or Google. This was a feature that would enable users to conduct searches in a format that was already familiar to them while Brave’s own index was being developed.
An excerpt from a blog post that announces Brave’s expanded capabilities goes as follows: “We realize that the redirect option was not popular with some of our users, and we thank them for their patience during this transition.” “This was a temporary decision to help users find results with as little hassle as possible while we worked to offer a sustainable, privacy-preserving, and independent image and video search option.”
The business claims that the capability to search for images and videos within the Brave ecosystem will allow users to benefit from greater speed and privacy in comparison to other search engines that rely on third-party suppliers.
However, it also portrays the launch as a means of putting a check on “Big Tech censorship,” giving an example from a couple of years ago when it was discovered that Microsoft Bing did not offer up any images in response to a search for “tank man” in Tiananmen Square.
Because of this, Brave experienced issues at the time because it continued to rely on the image search results provided by Bing.
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The business stresses that they are continuously working to enhance Brave’s image search results. Certain advanced filters, such as license type and aspect ratio, will not be immediately available for use at this time. On the other hand, it states that these will be included in the near future.
The Brave Search engine is the default search engine of the company’s own Brave web browser; however, it can also be used independently at search.brave.com.
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