A few days ago I got the chance to be introduced to a decentralized search engine, powered by blockchain technology, by @taskmaster4450le.
When it comes to searching, we only know one thing, and that's Google. The habit has even changed our vocabulary. How many times we hear people saying Google it! While I understand why people are associating the giant's name with the action itself, we shouldn't do it as it doesn't deserve such fame.
The decentralized search engine, powered by blockchain technology I've been introduced to is called Presearch and before I tell you more about it, let me show you what's the difference between Google and Presearch.
Yesterday, when Leofinance was down, @revisesociology was asking on Discord what's the link the Leopedia, as he couldn't find it and Google doesn't find it either using 'leopedia' as keyword.
Google vs Decentralized Search Engine
Let's do an experiment. Try to run a Google search using 'leopedia' as keyword. You'll see Leopedia.io is on the second page, ranking 18. The first 17 results that Google serves you have something to do (more or less) with Leopedia, which is a business in India, but we're not interested in that, we want Leopedia.io.
Obviously if you use Leopedia.io as keyword, you get the page as first result but then again, we're not searching through Google because we don't have anything better to do, but because we can't remember the .io at the end, right?
Now let's try a search through Presearch, using the same keyword, leopedia.
Voilà! Leopedia.io is on the first page ranking 8th among the organic results.
For those of you who are new to this, Google has been accused repeatedly of manipulating the algorithm. As a simple user, it may be frustrating not to find what you want because the results returned are manipulated based on certain interests. Now try to imagine what it means for your business when your webpage ranking in search is intentionally manipulated and you're suffering financial setbacks due to that. It's a totally different thing that can actually ruin your business.
What Is Presearch?
It's a search extension (add-on) for Chrome/Brave and Firefox, very easy to set up. It has a user friendly interface that allows you choose the background color you like, blue being the default one.
In this video you can see Colin Pape, the founder of Presearch, explaining how Presearch works, differences between other search engines, benefits, future plans, etc.
Why Use Presearch
There are plenty of reasons to use Presearch for:
- it is decentralized,
- runs on node servers operated by Presearch community members,
- it does not track you or store your searches,
- queries are handled by a decentralized network of node servers processing anonymized queries,
- you earn Presearch reward tokens when you search, when you operate a node, and when you refer others to join Presearch.
There's a market for Pre tokens and this is how the market looks like today. You can buy and/or sell Pre tokens, or use it for keyword staking.
Conclusions
I've been testing this cool toy for two days now and the more I use it, the more I like it.
We are talking about decentralization day in day out so it's time to opt for decentralized search engines as well.
It's time for a new era.
If you're interested, you can use my referral link
https://presearch.org/signup?rid=2058286
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