How do I use brave can’t do searches

Can someone tell me how to search information on brave

You can launch the browser and visit any search engine (search.brave.com, google.com, duckduckgo.com, etc.)to perform a search in the browser.

You can also type your search query directly into the address bar to perform a search — information on how to setup your default address bar search engine can be found here:

Lastly, you can also perform a search on the new tab page using the search bar widget:

Note that you can click on the icon on the left of the search bar to change the default search used on the widget.

I have suddenly a search problem when opening a new tab. I used to get the red brave logo now a new tab opens with a grey brave logo
The search shows links but I cannot access any