Ask Brave: AI answers + links in seconds ⚡️
Ask Brave: What it is and how it integrates search and chat ✨
Ask Brave unifies classic search results with AI-generated answers in a single interface, enabling chat-based interaction and query follow-ups. The tool is accessible from any browser at search.brave.com/ask and is designed with privacy as its main focus, seeking to bridge the gap between search engines and conversational assistants.
Quick definition 💡
Definition: Ask Brave is a subsystem that combines traditional search links and AI responses into a conversational flow for clearer, more actionable information without switching platforms.
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How to summon Ask Brave ✅
You can easily activate Ask Brave from Brave Search: add a double question mark "??" to the end of your search, tap the "Ask" button on search.brave.com, or select the "Ask" tab on the results page. These built-in options allow you to switch from a classic search to a conversational experience without any additional steps.
- ✅ Double question mark (??) — direct shortcut in the search bar.
- 📌 Ask button — available at search.brave.com.
- ✏️ Ask tab — change the experience from the results page.
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Operating modes: standard and deep research ⚡
Ask Brave funciona en dos modos principales: estándar para respuestas rápidas y conversacionales, y deep research para investigación exhaustiva. El modo de investigación profunda realiza múltiples rondas de búsqueda sobre el índice de Brave para cubrir puntos ciegos y ofrecer respuestas más completas y detalladas cuando el tema lo requiere.
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Privacy and data management 🔒
Ask Brave is part of the ecosystem Brave and maintains strict privacy policies: chats are encrypted, conversations aren't used to train AI models, and they're deleted after 24 hours of inactivity. Additionally, Brave Search doesn't log IP addresses, which reduces the possibility of associating queries with specific users.
- 🔒 Chat encryption — protected conversations.
- ⏱️ Automatic deletion — are deleted after 24 hours of inactivity.
- 🚫 Not used for training — Brave claims it doesn’t use conversations to tune models.
Scope and relationship with other tools 📈
Ask Brave complements, but does not replace, “AI Answers,” Brave Search’s AI-powered summary launched in 2023, which will remain available. Brave reports that its answer system generates more than 15 million answers daily, and Ask Brave seeks to bridge the gap between traditional links and answers from big models by integrating both approaches into a single flow.
“With Ask Brave, users no longer have to choose between different tools depending on the action they want to perform, juggling between traditional search engines with their ten blue links, and chat-like interfaces with their walls of text.”
“Brave solves this problem by offering a system that combines the best of both approaches, eliminating the unnecessary back-and-forth between different platforms and cumbersome copy-pasting.”
Key benefits 🎯
- 🚀 Single stream: combine search and chat without switching tools.
- ⚡ Adapted modes: quick answers and in-depth research options.
- 🔒 Privacy: Encryption, no use for training and automatic deletion.
