Brave's privacy-first search engine is now built in to its browser

Brave is very confident in its privacy-centric search engine -- so much so that it's giving Google the boot. As of today (October 19th), Brave will use the engine as its browser's default search tool, replacing Google in the US, UK and Canada. Your browser will keep its existing search engine settings, and you can always pick Google or another competitor if you're so inclined. The change in defaults is available across desktop releases as well as Android and iOS. Brave Search is effectively billed as the anti-Google engine.