Browser makers and Google Search alternative Brave announced on Monday that it will add new features to Ask Brave, an AI-powered search suite, to provide detailed answers on topics based on queries.
The search company said the new feature will coexist next to the AI Answers feature. It was introduced last year to provide a summary answer to a search query. The company said people get more than 15 million answers every day.
You don’t need to switch to any special modes to use Ask Brave. Search engines automatically know what queries they are asking for and respond accordingly.
You can start your search using the ASK button next to the Brave Search box. You can also turn your regular search query into an AI search query by tapping the (ASK) tab in the results of the search page. If you have Brave Search as your default search engine, you can add a double question mark (“??”) to the query to start an Ask Brave Search query.
“AI answers provide a simple summary for users, but Brave offers longer answers, follow-ups, and most importantly, contextually relevant enhancements in the right place, such as videos, news articles, products, business, shopping, and more.” “Search makes it possible, and LLMS glues it to you. AskBrave looks forward to generating millions of AI-powered answers every day with this powerful search and chat combination, and deploying more convenient, AI-powered search tools for users.”
The answer format obtained from Ask Brave is similar to the report format obtained from ChatGpt or confusion, including links, videos and image carousels. Once you get the answer, you can convert the answer to an AI chatbot to another format or ask a follow-up question.
Brave said it uses its own API to accurately ground search results, along with deep research into specific queries.
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AI-powered Q&A sneaks up on a variety of search experiences. Google expanded its AI mode to multiple languages last week, including its global expansion in Spanish. Brave’s functionality is similar, but comes with privacy claims that it encrypts and removes user chats after 24 hours of inactivity.
