[11] However, the user can allow the Brave browser to anonymously check Google for the same query.
[12] A feature that shows conversations related to the search query, such as comments on the website Reddit.
[16] However, Brave Search implements some level of data collect when users opt in through the Web Discovery Project (WDP).
[18] As of May 2022, it covered over 10 billion pages and was used to serve 92% of search results without relying on any third-parties, with the remainder being retrieved server-side from the Bing API or (on an opt-in basis) client-side from Google.
[11] According to Brave, the index was kept "intentionally smaller than that of Google or Bing" in order to help avoid spam and other low-quality content, with the disadvantage that "Brave Search is not yet as good as Google in recovering long-tail queries.