Most small search services actually resell results licensed from a large engine like Google or Bing. Brave Search is different: it runs its own independent index, built and maintained without reusing another engine's results — a standalone read on what a crawler actually sees on a site.
What it is
Brave Search is an independent, privacy-first search engine with its own index: it doesn't track queries or personalize results the way large engines do, so its results lean on more direct signals — page content and technical health — without the personalization and ad layers common to bigger search engines.
What you get
Seyka searches Brave the same way it searches Yandex — for the queries you name — and shows whether a site shows up and how it ranks there. Brave runs only when you name it; every other search goes through Yandex. That gives a third comparison point alongside Yandex and Google: if a site ranks well elsewhere but doesn't surface for any of the queries you check in Brave, that can be a signal of a crawl-access issue — overly strict robots.txt rules or user-agent blocking that bigger crawlers tolerate but smaller ones don't. Useful for diagnosing crawler-access problems in general, and for projects whose audience includes privacy-focused search users.