Brave Search's image search and video search play out of Google and Bing



Brave Browser's default search engine, Brave Search, now shows all image and video search results from Brave Search's independent index. Until now, media was displayed via Google and Bing, but due to censorship of images such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, Brave pursued a unique system that is not influenced by big tech. rice field.

With our own image and video search, Brave Search now offers comprehensive independent results, giving users a fully-fledged, privacy-preserving choice outside of Big Tech | Brave

https://brave.com/image-video-search/



Brave Search is a search engine developed by Brave that uses its own index for searching text. With the update on August 3, 2023, not only text but also image and video searches will return results from their own index. This will allow users to benefit from a completely independent search engine that protects their privacy and is censorship-resistant.

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the Brave Search API , which was just released on May 30, 2023, will soon display search results for images and videos by Brave Search.

“Brave Search is 100% private and highly anonymous, setting a high bar for image and video searches to meet. We believe that users should be able to discover content without being or profiling.'

In 2021, Brave cited the incident in which `` Tank Man '', known as a symbolic photo of the Tiananmen Square massacre, disappeared from Bing search results, saying, ``This is all search results to Bing's API. It affected third-party services such as DuckDuckGo that they depend on, as well as us, Brave Search, because at the time we relied on Bing for our image search results, and it was a technical dependency. At the same time, it was also an unintended extension of Big Tech's censorship,' suggesting that he was trying to break away from Big Tech.



And now, with image and video search completely separate from other companies, Brave says, 'By allowing users to search for important categories such as images and videos directly within Brave, users will be able to search even more than before. Content is now accessible, and with all searches done within the Brave ecosystem, users benefit from increased speed and privacy compared to multiple search engines that rely on third-party providers. You can receive the

Brave's primary goal is to provide a great alternative to Big Tech for all text, image, and video search results, but when it doesn't deliver the right results, other means of searching are intuitive and easy. He said he is trying to keep it going. He also said that advanced filters such as license type and aspect ratio are not yet available, saying, 'It will be soon, but for the time being it's just a matter of providing a clear alternative to full functionality. I think it's more important,' he said.


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