Presearch is a decentralized web3 search engine, this means all search traffic through the service now runs over Presearch’s decentralized network of volunteer-run nodes. Presearch will be the potential alternative to google.
Presearch moved from their testnet environment to mainnet this week. Its decentralized infrastructure consists of 65,000 nodes, with a significant concentration in the United States at this point.
Presearch is trying to rival Google by creating a search engine free of user data collection. To pull this off, the search engine is using volunteer-run computers, known as “nodes,” to aggregate the search results for each query. The nodes then get rewarded with a blockchain-based token for processing the search results. Anyone can be a volunteer to turn their home computer or virtual server into a node.
The company was initially founded by Colin Pape back in 2017