Following in the footsteps of Bing and Google, the challenger Brave Search has announced “Summarizer”, a new feature boosted with artificial intelligence implemented in its search engine. Intended to provide a summary to Internet users from multiple sources of information, it is in the wake of features offered by Google, but intends to create a break with sometimes unreliable generative AI.
What you must remember :
- Summarizer generates a summary based on multiple sources of information
- Brave Search wants to distinguish itself from generative AIs, which are sometimes unreliable
- The feature concerns 17% of requests at the moment
- Summaries generated for each listed result complement the overall summary on the SERP
A summary generated from multiple sources
In substance as in form, the Brave Search Summarizer will inevitably remind you of other features developed by Google, namely Featured Snippets and the Outlook, but also the conversational Bing with Chat GPT sauce. When a user submits a query, Summarizer provides a concise response, a “summary”, based on multiple sources of informationcited for the occasion.
In its announcement, however, Brave wanted to make an important clarification: “ unlike a purely generative AI model that tends to spout unsubstantiated claims, we trained our large language models (LLMs) to process multiple sources of information present on the web. This produces a more concise and precise answer, expressed in coherent language. “A way to stand out from the competition and in particular from the slippages and other antics of Bing AI Chat.
Search Engine Land also noticed that Brave Search was not content to take information from the top 3 organic results, but that the engine was going to draw data from sources positioned in different places of the SERPincluding a website located in 10e position on the query how many days until christmas (“How many days until Christmas”).
17% of queries affected by Summarizer
The Summarizer function is available to all users, on computers and smartphones. For now, only 17% of requests are affected by this new feature. Brave’s objective is obviously to increase this percentage in the near future.
Also, in the results snippets, Brave Search also bolds responses to queries made, and no longer just the keywords, as in the past. But the engine goes further: Our AI models are also able to replace query-related snippets (result descriptions) with a summarized version of those snippets, highlighting the answer where possible. This can be considered a single-source summary (like a news article), as opposed to a main summary where multiple sources are considered and aggregated to create a more comprehensive answer. The summary at the top of the page and these special descriptions co-exist, so users will see an overall summary as well as excerpts with highlighted answers (in bold). »
Still very far from its main competitors, in April 2022, Brave announced that it had exceeded 12 million requests per day on its search engine, now hoping reach 22 million queries per day. For comparison, about 8.5 billion queries are made on Google every day.
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