A privacy-focused decentralized search engine has been launched on the public mainnet.
What Happened
Presearch, a community-driven blockchain, hopes to rival Alphabet Inc’s Google with its newly launched search engine.
“In a world where one company controls 92 percent of the search engine market and the flow of information for billions of people, there’s a clear need for a decentralized, Web3 alternative,” said Presearch founder Colin Pape, in a press release shared with Benzinga.
The platform has 3.8 million registered users and 150 million monthly searches. The search engine runs on 65,000 nodes distributed across the computers of its community members.
Essentially, these nodes are the providers of the decentralized computing resources required to power the network. They privately anonymize queries and return results for incoming searches….