Security News > 2022 > June > Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year
Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries and seeing almost 5,000% growth in a year.
To celebrate this success, Brave Software announced that Brave Search is finally exiting its beta phase and will become the default search engine for all users of the Brave browser.
Since launching in June 2021, Brave Search grew by almost 5,000%, starting with 8.1 Million search queries in June 2021 and growing to 411.7 million by the end of May 2022.
Besides focusing on privacy and independence, Brave also strived to offer new mechanisms that would enrich the experience of using Brave Search.
"Goggles" is a feature that allows Brave Search users to customize how search results are ranked, setting custom preferences and priorities.
With new features like Goggles and Discussions, Brave Search goes several steps further from being just a more privacy-respecting independent search engine to being a customizable one.