Both are pretty private and only part of an overall online privacy strategy.(Photo : GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)Ī guest takes a selfie with her smartphone during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid on April 8, 2021. If you just do basic searches and want something that isn't affiliated with big tech really, go with Brave (AFAIK it is the only independent search engine). So TL DR if you are looking for something as close to one of the big search engines, DDG is where you want to go.

Brave has a reputation for privacy, but their search hasn't been around very long so there very well could be some privacy breeches in there somewhere. Privacy, DDG search has a pretty good reputation. So if you have a unique query you are better off using DDG. So most things are available on Brave, but many more things are indexed on DDG. So they can do a lot more with the smaller index since it is usually popular pages. On the flip side Brave focuses on the most popular pages on the internet. As a result Brave's index is a fraction of the size of DDG's. So brave indexes based off of user browsing if I understand tailcat's process correctly. Brave is not one of them (think google and Microsoft). The big quality difference is there are very few companies with enough compute power to actually index the entire internet. The big difference is DDG uses Bing results mostly and Brave uses its own index.

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