Brave Search (official) - Private Search Engine
Extension Actions
- Live on Store
Configures Brave Search as the default search engine.
The smarter way to search
Configures Brave Search as the default search engine in your browser.
Get real answers. Faster.
AI-powered answers to almost any question, lightning fast and incredibly accurate. An independent index delivering actually useful results, without big tech’s SEO spam.
All in the same sleek results page.
Search without a trace. Search that puts you first.
Brave Search doesn’t profile you. It’s impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your personal data, because we don’t collect it in the first place.
Innovative
An easy way to customize your results rankings. AI-powered answers to almost any question. Forum discussions right in the results page. Powerful local results.
Tired of Big Tech’s same old list of links? Brave Search brings real innovation.
Independent
Even supposedly “neutral” or “private” search engines rely on Big Tech for results. Brave delivers results from its own, built-from-scratch index. No secret methods or algorithms, and no bias.
Answering more than 45 million queries every day, for millions of users around the world, Brave Search is the real choice for private, independent, useful search results. Get it now for Chrome or any other browser, with dozens of available languages.
Latest reviews
- Seconds Of Mine
- The most capable search engine outside Big Tech's grip Google doesn't just return results — it curates a worldview. Its algorithm systematically amplifies institutional consensus and buries dissent. Most "alternative" search engines are just Bing skins — they inherit the same index, the same biases, the same gatekeeping under a different logo. DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Ecosia — different branding, same infrastructure. There are a handful of genuinely independent indexes out there — Mojeek, Kagi, Yep — but they come with real trade-offs in capability, cost, or accessibility. Brave sits in a rare position: it built its own independent index and it actually works well enough for daily use. That's not a small thing — that's the whole thing. For anyone thinking seriously about where information power concentrates and why, that distinction matters enormously. The extension itself is clean, fast, no friction. But the reason to use it goes beyond functionality — it's the most viable mainstream option that is architecturally outside Big Tech's search infrastructure. That's worth five stars. — Written with the assistance of Perplexity AI
- Nobody Knows
- This is good so far, but i need to see my shortcut sites and the extension wont let me
- Rob Lachapelle
- Works perfectly. Don't use the others, use this one from the Brave developers.