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Presearch’s Web3 Search

Photo: Piotr Swat
Photo: Piotr Swat (Shutterstock)

It’s time to get totally decentralized, dude. In recent years, web3 proponents have begun to launch their own search engines, claiming that blockchain and crypto can somehow help optimize the way web users search for information online. One of the big startups in this space is Presearch, which is powered by a supposedly decentralized network of 65,000 nodes—sorta like how the Tor browser’s infrastructure comes from a global army of volunteers. Presearch says that searches are anonymized, and users can get rewarded for search activity with Presearch’s native crypto token, PRE.

Rating: Best search engine for crypto hype men? Honestly, as a web3 experiment, Presearch works about as well as other Google alternatives. It’s worth checking out, if nothing else.