Presearchis a decentralized search engine with more than 3.5 million users and nearly 200 million searches a month. It offers users three unique value propositions:
Having control over their data and privacy
Being paid for contributing value to the ecosystem
A decentralization search ecosystem
Presearch identified the problem of traditional search engines and turned it on its head. Instead of search engines monetizing the user’s data, the users monetize the data themselves. Presearch does this by paying its users to utilize its search engine. The company is designed to be a non-profit organization, thereby eliminating incentives of for-profit corporations that may run contrary to users’ best interests. It also achieves decentralization of its ecosystem thanks to the operation of its nodes by community members.
Presearch has an incredibly detailed roadmap that splits its evolution into three main phases. The first phase followed its launch in 2017 and was designed to establish a product-market fit. The second phase, which the company currently finds itself in, is dedicated to building a sustainable business model aimed at decentralizing search. The final phase will be dedicated to decentralizing governance through the establishment of a DAO. At the moment, Presearch is working on its mainnet launch and was listed by Google as a default search engine option on all new Android devices across the U.K. and Europe.
