Time zone queries and sports scores were among the most requested features by users, and Brave's team are working on these to be displayed on the results page. The representatives also said that privacy-protected search ads are on the to-do list. The company is focusing on improving the quality of the core search before diving into other options. When users asked if BAT would be added to the service, the engineers replied saying that Brave Search and Brave Ads are not being integrated at the moment. This seems to be tied to the Country setting that you have selected. Some users mentioned that the search engine is not delivering results in the language they chose, and instead displays them in English. Brave is planning on adding more data centers in the future, to address the issue. They clarified that this was due to how they handle the traffic, the search engine's data center is located in the US West Coast, and places further away have higher latencies. The developer team has confirmed that Brave Search has been slow, and that they have received complaints from European users. The company's transparency page which shows the stats of the platform will soon be updated to reflect search-related data. The search index is around 9 Billion pages as of now, which only comprises a part of the web, though it is expected to grow as more users perform queries and visit the websites. Brave doesn't rely completely on machine learning, and user-contribute sites help filter and deliver the best results. good quality sites visited by people (without tracking their usage). As to how the independent indexing works, a representative explained that Brave Search indexes the web based on real-life usage, i.e. If you can recall, Brave acquired the Tailcat search engine, to integrate it with Brave Search.

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