I wanted to use Brave as my default search engine, and to test it out, I typed "brave search" in my address bar, and I got Brave Search results (success!) for the search "search", not for "brave search" as expected (not so successful!). After a moment, I realized that "brave" was the default keyword for this search. Then I realized it's not possible to change that (you can add another keyword, but you can't disable, as far as I can tell, the default). So in order to search for things that start with the word "brave", you have to type "brave" twice, which is not a great experience. All my built-in search engines seem to have default keywords that start with "@", so that seems like a good default for this as well.
I wanted to use Brave as my default search engine, and to test it out, I typed "brave search" in my address bar, and I got Brave Search results (success!) for the search "search", not for "brave search" as expected (not so successful!). After a moment, I realized that "brave" was the default keyword for this search. Then I realized it's not possible to change that (you can add another keyword, but you can't disable, as far as I can tell, the default). So in order to search for things that start with the word "brave", you have to type "brave" twice, which is not a great experience. All my built-in search engines seem to have default keywords that start with "@", so that seems like a good default for this as well.