Brave Sells Its Search Index to AI, and Your Website Is Probably in It
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Brave sells access to its 30-billion-page search index to AI companies through its Search API, and its crawler doesn't identify itself with a distinct user agent, so websites cannot block it without also blocking Google, which Brave says it follows. The New York Times sued Brave on Nov.