Brave, the browser company and search engine, announced yesterday that, having removed all reliance on Bing, their search service is now 100% independent of ‘Big Tech’.

Since they appear to be offering a genuine alternative, I thought I’d add them to the engine options on What do you suggest?.

A graphic showing the suggestions made by the Brave search engine for the search 'what is brave' — Brave search's top suggestion is for its own browser.

Brave is the only search engine in the list where it doesn’t appear to be possible to explicitly request suggestions for a given locale or language. They do appear to vary their suggestions by location, but that information appears to be inferred somehow — presumably based on the IP address of the request or the location of the edge node that handles the request.

It is possible to set a preferred locale from a short list in the user interface of the search engine page, but this doesn’t appear to affect the search suggestions it returns.

A screenshort of the Brave search 'Quick settings' screen showing a short list of locales a user can select. The default selected locale is English (United States) — Brave search settings

If you happen to know, or figure out, how to vary search suggestions on Brave by locale, I’d love to hear about it.

Have fun exploring!

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