With Ask Brave, Brave Search evolves online search: the platform combines the power of traditional search and conversational AI in a single interface, accessible for free to everyone. This new service promises enriched, contextualized answers that always respect users' privacy, while integrating advanced search and chat features.
Key takeaways:
- Ask Brave unifies web search and AI chat, enabling detailed answers, videos, products, and links in a single interaction.
- Responses are based on real-time web data, with 94.9% accuracy and a model that significantly reduces errors and hallucinations.
- Privacy is guaranteed: dialogues are not used for AI training, conversations are encrypted and automatically deleted after 24 hours.
- Several access options: via the search bar by adding "??", the dedicated button on the homepage, the Ask tab, or a personalized homepage.
Ask Brave: a new AI-driven search experience
Ask Brave answers a real user frustration: juggling search engines that show their “ten blue links” and AI tools with responses that are often long-winded but not very interactive. Brave merges the best of these worlds into a single interface where each query can result in an in-depth answer, enriched with videos, products to browse, links, articles and, for the more curious, options to go further in chat mode.
Available on all browsers, for free, Ask Brave can be triggered in several ways:
- By adding "??" to the end of your query on Brave Search,
- Via the "Ask" button on the main page,
- Or through the dedicated tab in the results.
The service adapts the response format according to the intent: a simple search, a complex question, or a deep exploration session.
Reliable, contextual, and immediately actionable answers
Ask Brave's strength? Its grounding in real-time search. Unlike many AIs that rely on static and sometimes outdated corpora, Ask Brave leverages more than 35 billion web pages for each request, with grounding and Deep Research mechanismscapable of launching dozens of queries, analyzing thousands of pages and guaranteeing near-scientific accuracy: the technology delivers 94.9% accuracy on the SimpleQA benchmark.
In addition to enriched answers, users can get explanatory videos, suggested products, news articles or personalized follow-ups in just a few clicks. Results are always contextualized according to the user's intent and the desired level of depth.
A high standard of privacy and data protection
A true pillar of the brand, Privacy is at the heart of Ask BraveConversations are encrypted, ephemeral (automatically deleted after 24 hours of inactivity), and dialogues are never used to train the AI. IP addresses are not collected and personal data remains inaccessible for advertising or machine learning. Brave Search therefore remains one of the few engines to guarantee complete protection of exchanges, far from the data monetization logics that dominate the sector.
A major advance for AI research and integration
With over 97 million monthly active users and 1.5 billion queries processed per month, Brave Search has established itself as the third largest independent search engine worldwide. The launch of Ask Brave coincides with the AI pivot adopted by the search giants: Google with AI Mode and Microsoft with CopilotBut Brave stands out with a full-web approach, an "unpolluted" index and an absolute privacy policy, giving users control, transparency and a truly valuable conversational experience.
Simplified access and a variety of use cases
There are many uses : simple question ("charging an electric vehicle??"), complex search ("Comparative review of mirrorless cameras for wildlife??"), or guided exploration on a specific topic. Companies and developers can also leverage the Search API to integrate the power of real-time web data into their own AI tools or assistants, and build conversational agents that are far more relevant.
The article “Ask Brave: an interface that merges AI and browsing” was published on the site Abondance.
