Brave Software, maker of the Chromium-based Brave Browser and Brave Search, announced new user records yesterday. The company's web browser hit 100 million monthly active users last month, which is an important milestone for the company.
Brave Software says that its browser has seen an average growth of about 2.5 million new users each month in the past two years. In 2022, we reported that Brave had crossed the 50 million monthly active users mark.
The browser has over 42 million daily active users according to Brave Software, which the company says demonstrates its high user engagement.
Brave Search, the company's independent search engine, has reached important milestones as well according to the company. It serves more than 1.6 billion queries each month and provides results for more than 50 million user queries every single day.
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It is an interesting development, one that the higher ups at Mozilla are likely monitoring closely. Brave Search, for instance, started out as Tailcat. Owned by Cliqz, which Mozilla had an investment in.
One has to wonder where Mozilla could stand today if it would have created Firefox Search from the ashes of Tailcat. While Google's money is keeping Mozilla up and running, it seems at times as a major roadblock regarding innovation and business decisions.
Anyway, the milestone is a major one for Brave Software. Its browsers is one of the few that shows consistent growth next to dominant Google Chrome. Firefox usage, for example, has been dropping.
That is to say, Brave is not without controversy. The company laid of about nine percent of its employees in 2023, but the bigger issue for some is the browser's crypto-involvement.
However, Brave Browser, based on Chromium, ships with a privacy and ad-blocker by default. It works out of the box, making Brave a good choice for users who want to experience a web in peace.
Now You: have you tried Brave Browser or Brave Search? Did you like it? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
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