The Brave browser saw unprecedented growth in 2021, reaching over 25 million monthly active users.

Tailcat does not collect IP addresses or use personally identifiable information to improve search results.īrave Search will join the family of privacy-preserving Brave products as consumers are increasingly demanding user-first alternatives to Big Tech. In contrast, the Tailcat search engine is built on top of a completely independent index, capable of delivering the quality people expect, but without compromising their privacy. Under the hood, nearly all of today’s search engines are either built by, or rely on, results from Big Tech companies. Brave Search and the Brave browser constitute the industry’s first independent, privacy-preserving alternative to Google Chrome and Google Search, which rely on tracking users across sites and have 70 percent and 92 percent market share, respectively.

Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search. Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Brave Search is coming just as millions are migrating from Big Tech platforms to more private and secure solutions

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