e Search now offers an AI Summarizer
Brave Search introduced Summarizer, an AI-powered feature similar to Google’s featuredsnippets or Perspectives search engine results. It also looks like BingGPT’s , which generates answers to questions in close-to-real-time.
Summarizer gives concise answers (generally two to three sentences) with one or more citations to user search queries.
Brave’s Summarizer answers rely on web search results. Brave made this a key point in their announcement.
- “Unlike a purely-generative AI model that is susceptible to making unsubstantiated claims, we trained our large languages models (LLMs), to process multiple sources information available on the Web. This results in a concise and accurate answer that is written in a coherent language.
This is what it looks like. Here’s an example:
Brave’s Summarizer informs me:
- “There are 305 days before Christmas 2023. This means that there are 43.57 Weeks, 7320.0 Hours, and 10.89 Months until Christmas 2023.
This answer also contains three original sources, which I have annotated in red. These numbered citations can’t be clicked. Clicking on them will reveal the source of this information. The summaries will be displayed below for searchers to access.
Brave pulls information from more than the top three organic search results. Citation 0 was at 10th place, Citation 1 was at 4th and Citation 2 at the top of organic search results.
For 17% of queries, summaries are displayed. Brave stated that Summarizer provides searchers with real-time and up-to-date information by using web results. Brave noted, however, that only 17% of queries are being summarized – although Brave intends to increase that number “inthe near future.”
Brave’s result summary snippets also include summaries. Brave Search will be bolding (i.e., highlighting) answers instead of bolding keywords in searches. Brave stated:
- “…Our AI models can also replace query-dependent snippets or result descriptions with a simplified version of those snippets that highlights the answer whenever possible. This summary can be considered a summary of one source (such a press article) rather than the main summary, which includes multiple sources and is combined to provide a more complete answer. These special descriptions and the summary at the top are co-occurring, so users will both see the overall summary as well as the snippets with highlighted responses.
Here is a comparison of the before and after for a question about [What happened in east Palestine ohio]
Brave is not content to simply bold keywords in a search query. Instead, it is trying to provide complete answers in result-snippets. Brave also notes that queries can trigger both the Summarizer and these summarized snippets.
Why do we care? While Brave is a privacy-focused search engine, it might be worthwhile to look at Brave’s Summarizer to see how it performs on different queries. Although this feature will not change your search strategies in any way, it may be a good example of how AI chat features evolve with Google and Bing.
Now Available. Brave summarizer is now available for all users on mobile and desktop. You can choose to opt out of Search Settings.
Now, they are seeing 22 million queries per hour. Brave reported that it had passed 12 million queries per minute as of April last year. They now receive 22 million queries each day.
This is a solid growth rate, but DuckDuckGo’s traffic data was not publicly shared until April 2022, when they fell below 100,000,000 queries per day. An estimated 8.5 billion searches take place every day on Google. Google receives more queries per day than Brave, so that’s a significant advantage.
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