Brave Is Selling Access to Its Search Index to AI Companies Cohere, Mistral, and Perplexity
TLDR
Brave is selling its search index to Cohere, Mistral, and Perplexity, and a site: search can show whether a given website's pages are included.
Optimixed Overview
Optimixed's original report on this story.
Brave has sold its search index to Cohere, Mistral, and Perplexity, as first reported by Search Engine Journal. The article notes that a 30-second site: search can show whether a site's pages are part of the index.
How we got here: earlier coverage
- Nov 2New York Times Sues Brave, Alleging It Sold Paywalled Content Access to AI Companies
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- Oct 31New Research Finds a Weakness in Big-Brand AI Search Visibility That Smaller Sites Could Exploit
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- Oct 9AI Overviews Now Appear in Most Big-Brand Searches, Tracking Data Shows
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- Jul 29New Free Browser Extension Tracks AI Overview Citations and AI Readiness
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