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That has all ended now though as Brave hasannounced that its search engine is entirely independent.
“Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index.
Brave Search will no longer call the Bing API at all.
Weve removed all search API calls to Bing, which previously represented about 7% of query results.”
Brave’s big play, as with its other web products, is privacy.
Brave Search is designed as an alternative to Google or Bing.
Brave Search will no longer call the Bing API at all.
Google fallback will be remaining as an option.
Brave has cited various reasons behind its decision to cut ties with Bing.
One of these is the adoption rate, with Brave Search now averaging 22 million search queries per day.
Another, though, is uncertainty over the Bing API and, in particular, it’s cost.
This created undue pressure for search engines that rely partly or fully on the Bing Search API."
