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The New York Times says Brave copied 30 billion pages and sold them to AI companies. Your website is probably in that index.

You’ve probably never used Brave Search. Well, not directly. But the AI you ask questions might have, and it might have found your website there. On Nov. 2, the New York Times sued Brave, the company behind the Brave browser and Brave Search. The Times says Brave copied more than 30 billion webpages “without identifying itself or providing website owners with any mechanism to block its crawler,” then sold that content to AI companies. Brave hasn’t answered yet, so for now those are claims. But why can’t you keep its crawler out without keeping Google out too? Brave explains that itself, right there on its help page.

Brave sells access to its search index to AI companies, through a product called the Brave Search API. When an AI assistant needs something recent from the web, it doesn’t always go and read the web itself. It can pay to search someone else’s index instead. Brave’s About page says the API is “Used by some of the biggest names in AI, including Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, and You.com.” Its AI page says the index holds “over 30 billion pages, with millions of new pages indexed each day.”

The Times’s complaint opens by naming five AI companies it says Brave supplies: Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. None of them is being sued. Claude is the fuzzy one, because the evidence is old.


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