Interesting, any links to info about that?
"Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will become the foundation of Brave Search..."
[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...