Brave Search is out of beta and lets users choose their own search rankings

Brave Search, Brave Browser’s search engine, has dropped out of beta. At the same time, Brave started testing the Goggles search engine tool. It allows users to control how their search results are ranked.

According to Brave’s own numbers about 2.5 billion searches were conducted through Search in the past year. The peak is at 14.1 million searches per day. Because Brave says it is satisfied with the increasing use of Search, it has decided to drop the search engine from the beta.

The Goggles tool can be found in a tab under Search. It allows users to adjust the rankings of search results and choose which results should be higher or lower. Goggles can also be shared with other users. One possible application of Goggles is to exclude websites that publish clickbait or copy content from other sources without permission. To demonstrate the feature, Brave itself has made some Goggles available.

The first open beta version of the Search search engine appeared last year. Brave’s search engine is characterized by not tracking users. No IP addresses are collected, although website operators can see certain metrics by looking at how many unique users come to them from the Brave search engine. The company also discloses how the search algorithm works.

Source: Brave