With the dApps which use Hive blockchain, we're able to do most things we did at THOSE Other Places, and thanks to HIVE we earn crypto for what we do. As far as I can tell, there is no general-purpose search engine dApp which can pay us in HIVE. The next best thing would be a search engine which lets us earn crypto from searching.
Presearch is that search engine:
Items of interest noted for using Presearch
About PRE Tokens
Just as Brave Browser lets its users earn BAT-- Basic Attention Tokens-- for using it, Presearch lets its users earn PRE-- Presearch Tokens. According to Page 12 of the PRE whitepaper,
PRE tokens are hosted on the Ethereum platform as standard ERC20 blockchain tokens.
This means that PRE are transferable to any Ethereum compatible wallet that recognizes ERC20 tokens. Token holders are able to sell their PRE directly to any business or individual interested in generating Presearch results at whatever price the seller is able to obtain for their token inventory.
Account Needed to Earn Crypto for Searching
Just as earning HIVE from using dApps such as Hive.Blog and Splinterlands requires having an account, earning PRE tokens at Presearch requires having an account.
Searches at Presearch can be made by non-Presearch account holders (or Presearch account holders who aren't logged in), but they earn the same as if they used That Search Engine: zero-point-zero. There are times when that's desired, but for anyone wanting to earn crypto from searching it's best to be logged in.
Actual Earnings of PRE from Searches
Each search at Presearch is worth 0.12 PRE. The earnings take place when they are done at the Main search page (similar to that shown in the images). Searches taking place from a search results page are worth 0.00 PRE. Just to be safe, make all new searches from the Main search page.
Earn PRE Tokens by Searching Hive.Blog using Presearch
We earn HIVE for using Hive.Blog and other dApps, but oddly enough we don't earn HIVE by searching. Even if we search using Hivesearcher.com, we get paid the same as if we searched using That Search Engine.
Just as odd, one of the search providers Presearch can use is Steemit:
That seems like an oversight.
Since Presearch uses the same advanced search operators as That Search Engine, it's possible to restrict searches to Hive.Blog or LeoFinance or ProofOfBrain:
- site:hive.blog cryptocurrency
- site:leofinance.io "cubfinance defi"
- site:proofofbrain.io "creative writing" -history
Choose Your Search Providers
One reason to use Presearch as the go-to search engine is the infamous bias shown by That Search Engine. By default, Presearch is set to use a number of search providers. It's possible to remove search providers and add search providers so that search results are more in line with what you want to find.
Some search providers are competing search engines such as Archive.org, Baidu, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and Yandex. Regional versions of That Search Engine are included as well.
It doesn't stop with general search engines. There are search providers for shopping-- especially Amazon and its regionals-- cryptocurrency, audio and music, news networks, business news, sports, images, social media, references, encyclopedias, even DTube! Domain registrars are included as search providers, too.
In the event a search provider isn't listed, it can be added as a New Provider. For this post I added Investing.com as a search provider by using the provider URL https://www.investing.com/search/?q= After saving the addition it appeared on the list of providers I use. Its location can be dragged and dropped to where it makes more sense.
For those who want to add an extension, extensions exist for Chrome/Brave browsers and for Firefox. If your web browser is built on top of these, the extensions will should work; I'm guessing this included redesigned versions of Opera.
| 2020 is the year in which Amazon received an unprecedented explosion in business. Most of us probably ordered from there any number of times during 2020. How much did Amazon pay us to find the products we were going to buy? Zero-point-zero. Had we used Presearch with Amazon as a search provider, we could have earned a decent amount of PRE tokens. |
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Like Hive blockchain, there is more that Presearch offers its users. This post is meant to let people know that anyone with a Presearch account can earn PRE tokens by doing not only regular searches but also specialized searches which normally require a niche serach engine (Amazon, Wikipedia, Netflix, LinkedIn, and Pexels, just to name a few).
It's true that old habits die hard, especially when it comes to how we use the Internet. Perhaps earning PRE tokens by using Presearch provides enough incentive to make the exodus from That Seach Engine. Presearch is the search engine that let's people earn crypto from searching, and it has its place in Web 3.0, the decentralized web.