Posted on 02/10/2021 12:11:13 AM PST by ghost.of.patton
Blockchain-based startup Presearch.io has released a decentralized search engine to help provide a more private alternative to Google. Taking a play out of privacy-centric web browser Brave’s book, it also rewards its users with it native crypto token, PRE.
The Ethereum-based project uses searches powered by independent nodes to help protect the identity of the people who make queries for data. Moreover, it puts a dent in the monopolistic power of Google to organize and rank results.
The project’s origin story begins in 2011, when Colin Pape’s ShopCity.com had its content buried by Google’s algorithm. The company filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission that the results were due to Google’s algorithm preferring its own, competing products over ShopCity’s.
Ultimately, Pape decided there was a need for an independent search engine, so he started building Presearch.
See, now you’re talking. I’ve tried a few searches with it since you pinged me and I like it. Just made it my default search engine in Brave.
Blockchain is the ultimate authoritarian government killer.
I expect blockchain to be banned someday soon.
Insurrectionist that I am.
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