Brave Search (official) - Private Search Engine
Configures Brave Search as the default search engine.
As of May 2026, Brave Search (official) - Private Search Engine has 10,000 users and a 4.80/5 rating from 5 reviews in the Privacy & Security category.
Usersup 400.0 percent+400.0%
10.0K
10,000
Ratingdown 4.0 percent−4.0%
4.80
5 reviews
Reviewsup 25.0 percent+25.0%
5
Version
2.0.0
Manifest V3
90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension gained 8.0K users.
History
4 snapshotsTracking since Apr 21, 2026.
View as table
| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2026 | 2.0K | 5.00 | 4 | 2.0.0 |
| May 6, 2026 | 9.0K | 5.00 | 4 | 2.0.0 |
| May 17, 2026 | 8.0K | 4.80 | 5 | 2.0.0 |
| May 31, 2026 | 6.0K | 4.80 | 5 | 2.0.0 |
| Now | 10.0K | 4.80 | 5 | 2.0.0 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- None declared
- Host access
- None declared
Screenshots
About
The smarter way to search Configures Brave Search as the default search engine in your browser. Get real answers. Faster. AI-powered answers to almost any question, lightning fast and incredibly accurate. An independent index delivering actually useful results, without big tech’s SEO spam. All in the same sleek results page. Search without a trace. Search that puts you first. Brave Search doesn’t profile you. It’s impossible for us to share, sell, or lose your personal data, because we don’t collect it in the first place. Innovative An easy way to customize your results rankings. AI-powered answers to almost any question. Forum discussions right in the results page. Powerful local results. Tired of Big Tech’s same old list of links? Brave Search brings real innovation. Independent Even supposedly “neutral” or “private” search engines rely on Big Tech for results. Brave delivers results from its own, built-from-scratch index. No secret methods or algorithms, and no bias. Answering more than 45 million queries every day, for millions of users around the world, Brave Search is the real choice for private, independent, useful search results. Get it now for Chrome or any other browser, with dozens of available languages.
Technical
- Version
- 2.0.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 19.6KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- imoinfjmpciaeboldbfaakmmjkijkeff
- Developer ID
- u872ff1895d5b602bf4e5772bfdc4d72f
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Mar 25, 2025
- Last Updated (Store)
- Jul 10, 2025
- Last Scraped
- May 31, 2026
- Website
- —
- Support URL
- https://community.brave.com
- Privacy Policy
- —
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