Presearch - The Decentralized Search Engine
Every one of us needs search engines to find web pages, do online research and connect with information around the world. Life on the internet today is incomplete without search engines and the name that dominates the search engine market for over a decade is Google. Almost every Internet user uses Google numerous times a day. If Internet is the Information Superhighway, Google is the on-ramp.
Google today is accountable for over 80% of global desktop searches and 96% of mobile searches, equating to over 5 billion queries per day and an annual revenue of almost 100 billion USD. The alternative search engines like Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, and DuckDuckGo covers the remaining small market share.
All these search engines small or big are centralized with no transparency of their operations. They are known for promoting their own properties at the expense of alternatives, appropriating others info and operating in secrecy, all of which is blamed on the algorithm. The reality is that they manually manipulate results while hiding behind their algorithm and justifying all changes as being 'best for the user'.
These are the biggest problems faced by the search engine market today, however, challenging times are also the most powerful, as they make us creatively ‘search’ for newer and better solutions.
The Presearch Search Engine
Presearch is an open, decentralized search engine. It is a community driven movement very similar to Wikipedia. Presearch is built on the following principles:
Transparency - The entire Presearch ecosystem, which includes ranking factors, usage stats, roadmaps, and financial results, is open for everyone to see and analyze.
Accessibility - Everyone can contact Presearch officials via phone, live chat, email, or online forum and receive a personal reply within 72 hours.
Open +Decentralized - Being open source, everyone is invited to come and contribute to the project. Thus, the project is building a truly decentralized search engine.
Presearch has a beta version in production, which you can see here. The user can choose one among many search engines from the list with Google as the default option, minimizing switching costs for the majority of users who already use Google. Users are exposed to alternative engines, including DuckDuckGo, social search engines, domain WHOIS engines and more.
Data is no longer a raw collection of facts and figures, it is the new currency of the 21st century. This currency is hoarded by big tech companies for their own massive benefits, giving nothing to the owner of the data. The biggest example of this is Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Presearch engine is created with an aim to give authority of data back in the hands of the user. When you search on Presearch, you will be rewarded with 0.25 PRE crypto tokens. One can do up to 32 searches per day (8 PRE tokens).
Google and other tech giants are not ignorant of the revolution brought by blockchain backed projects like Presearch and other startups and has banned ads related to ICO and cryptocurrency. Bans will take effect from Jun this year. This ban is a clear indication of fear of losing business.
Scott Spencer, Google's director of sustainable ads wrote in his blog " This year, we updated several policies to address ads in unregulated or speculative financial products like binary options, cryptocurrency, foreign exchange markets and contracts for difference (or CFDs)."
Presearch Tokens Statistics
Presearch Token is a ERC 20 compliant token that forms the fundamental unit of the payment system in the Presearch ecosystem. Presearch Token’s current price is 0.169265 USD (28 May 2018) with 155 million Pre token in circulation. The Market cap for Presearch token is 26.126 million USD, causing it to rank at 293 according to CoinMarketCap. These figures are phenomenal, keeping in view the current bearish crypto market since the start of the year 2018.
If you are eager to learn more about this disruptive blockchain project, please head over to Presearch's site: https://www.presearch.org/?utm_source=extcr.
