Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop

This is great news, and a total surprise to me!

Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search.

I've followed Brave for a while. My friend Hadar was the first person to turn me onto it years ago. It’s never become my everyday browser, that is still Safari as it meets my privacy needs and is fast and easy.

I love that Brave is jumping into the search space. I've used DuckDuckGo for years and it works great. Yes, you can have an Internet without Google folks. But, more options for privacy-first search engines will be great. 👏