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Brave Search (official) - Private Search Engine, used by 1,000 people, is not yet reviewed by Extension Auditor. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in July 2026.
Brave Search (official) - Private Search Engine Chrome extension security report
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Publisher Contextual Analysis
- Author
- Brave Software
- Privacy
- Privacy Policy
- Help
- Help Center
- Country
- US
- MX records exist
- Yes
- Domain exists
- Yes
- Is disposable
- No
- Is role-based
- No
- Mailbox exists
- Yes
- Address
- 580 Howard St #402 San Francisco, CA 94105 US
- Website
- Visit
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About this extension
Configures Brave Search as the default search engine.
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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.
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