Brave Search Launches Answer with AI, Delivering Accurate Results

Brave announced an update to Brave Search, where users can use their artificial intelligence (AI) answering engine called Answer with AI.

This new answering engine from Brave amalgamates information from various sources into one easily understandable answer.

This certainly marks a progression for Brave's other AI features, such as AI Summarizer, which was released in 2023.

What's Unique About Brave Search's Answer with AI?

This AI-based search feature has various unique aspects, including:

• Answer with AI is an answering engine with privacy security available on a large scale.
• This engine has handled nearly 10 billion queries entering Brave Search per year, making it one of the largest AI solutions in its market.
• The engine delivers nearly instant results, including cited sources as well as traditional search results.
• The Answer with AI feature is available for free for desktop and mobile and can be accessed at search.brave.com.
• Answer with AI supports searches in many languages besides English.

Brave Search itself receives 27 million queries per day, making it the fastest-growing search engine after Bing.

Why Do Users Need an Answering Engine?

Web-scale search engines have undergone various evaluation processes, such as query-dependent snippets, knowledge graphs, featured snippets, directory listings, and more.

The Answer with AI feature evolves this paradigm by providing a direct answer to a question instead of directing the user to a website.

In fact, apart from Brave Search, other search engines have launched similar answering system features, such as Bing Copilot and Google Gemini.

So, what distinguishes Brave Search's Answer with AI from these other answering engines?

In 2023, Brave Search released an AI-based tool to help users navigate search results.

With the release of Answer with AI, Brave Search takes a step further in delivering the best search engine experience.

What Can Answer with AI Do?

Answer with AI from Brave Search is designed to provide answers that are accurate, contextually relevant to the query, and timely.

Moreover, Brave Search aims to integrate the system to support user intent, such as navigational, informational, commercial, and transactional search intents.

Although the queries typed into search engines are contextually appropriate, most answering engines perform well in the informational category but not in others.

With the release of Answer with AI, Brave Search will use the answering engine experience by default for informational queries.

From the figure above, we entered a query with an informational intent. The result is that Brave Search immediately activates the Answer with AI, as seen from the top answer produced by the artificial intelligence and the checkmark (✓) next to the search bar.

The checkmark on the search bar indicates that the answer appearing in the search results has been generated by Answer with AI.

Unfortunately, Answer with AI cannot automatically respond to queries that do not have informational intent.

However, don't worry, if you want to find answers from other intents, you can click on Answer with AI next to the search bar.

An example of a search that requires you to click on Answer with AI is as follows. Below, we try entering a query with a commercial intent.

Then, the Answer with AI feature will appear next to the search bar, which you can click if you want to get an answer from the artificial intelligence.

In addition to providing answers in text form, Brave Search also provides search results combined with images and other media.

Furthermore, Brave Search also combines search results with geo-local results for more detailed information.