Brave Search Introduces Private Image and Video Search

Brave announced that its Brave Search service now offers private image and video search capabilities that are independent of Big Search.

“Users will no longer need to leave Brave Search for image and video search results,” the firm announced. “Now any Brave Search query can be served directly from Brave’s own index, enabling users to benefit from a fully independent search engine that protects their privacy and is censorship-resistant. Our recently released Brave Search API will also imminently include these image/video results.”

As you may recall, Brave Search stopped using Bing to help construct its search results this past May. At the time, the service bridged the functionality gap by temporarily giving users the option to get alternate image/video search results via a redirect to Bing or Google. But now the company is offering its own solution, which it describes as “sustainable, privacy-preserving, and independent.”

“Image and video search makes Brave Search a more comprehensive search engine while protecting user privacy,” Brave explains. “With the ability to search for crucial vertical categories such as images and videos directly within Brave, users can now access even more content than before. Additionally, by keeping all searches within the Brave ecosystem, users benefit from increased speed and privacy when compared with the multiple search engines that rely on third-party providers.”

Certain capabilities are temporarily unavailable, such as the ability to use advanced filters like aspect ratio and license type, but Brave says it will evolve this functionality quickly. For now, it believes that it’s more important to offer a clear alternative than complete feature parity.

You can use Brave Search on its website. It’s also the default search engine in the Brave web browser.