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Brave Search API
By Brave Software
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“The Brave Search API gives you access to its novel web-scale data with competitive features, intuitive structuring, and affordable costs.”
“their newest product the brave search API an independent Global search index you can use to power your search or AI apps”
“listeners can get started testing the API for free at brave.com Lenny”
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