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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Can Pro-Privacy Search Engines Replace Google? - Search Engine Journal

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Consumers of all ages and demographics are becoming increasingly aware of their growing dependence on technology – in many cases at the expense of their privacy.

According to Pew Research Center, 80% of Americans think the potential risks of personal data collection by companies outweigh the benefits and 79% of adults are very or somewhat concerned about how companies are using that data.

As a result, privacy-as-a-service (PaaS) is something that consumers are increasingly viewing less as a bonus and more as a necessity.

Non-Google search engines are feeding user desires for something in shortage today – digital privacy. Search engines offer an essential service, but while free monetarily, they are certainly not free of cost.

That cost is a certain level of intrusion into the lives of users as technology companies (namely Google) gather data about online habits and use that data to optimize their marketing efforts.

The privacy search frontrunner is DuckDuckGo, but a new privacy-focused rival to Google was recently launched – Brave.

Brave is a sophisticated, pro-privacy, non-tracking search engine co-founded by the inventor of JavaScript and the co-founder of Mozilla, giving it industry clout.

According to the “privacy-first” search engine:

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