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Presearch - A Better Search Engine — Support decentralized search by becoming a node operator.
Do you support decentralization and an open internet that isn’t dominated by a handful of Big Tech companies?
Now you can be part of the revolution by operating a Presearch Node and helping to power the Presearch decentralized search engine.
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Tom Bielecki
Why would your system provide “better” results than mainstream search engines? And do you have a way to quantify that?
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Maker
@tombielecki Hey Tom! Thanks so much for reaching out! We pull from multiple data feeds so our results are just as good in their relevancy, where we are superior in the community development of features on top of the search engine. If you were to search Bitcoin on the Presearch engine, you'd get a data feed that shows the real-time price of the coin, change over the past 24hrs & 7 days, market cap etc. This was built by a community member! It makes the search experience more engaging & allows the people who search to contribute to the search experience.
@carrabre to be fair, if I search Google for “Bitcoin” I get the exact same result.
Do you have a knowledge graph component?
Maker
@tombielecki Sorry you have to do two currency related searches and it populates (: you can see the other two here! https://presearch.io/packages. Yeah in a few areas we do, currency being one. We'd love for you to make one as well if you think of one that's interesting to you!
Maker
Welcome to Presearch Nodes Beta!
We're excited that you're here. If you want to try running a node, join our telegram (https://t.me/PresearchNodes) & fill our the Typeform (https://presearchcommunity.typef...) for beta here & we'll approve you! Node rewards going live soon so you will earn on your crypto!
Search engines are complicated, and building a decentralized search engine provides some unique challenges which do not apply to centralized search engines. For example: how do you prevent malicious actors from running nodes and either stealing user information or returning dangerous or unwanted content? How do you get fast (hundreds of milliseconds) response times across a massively distributed network of servers with drastic variability in performance and reliability? How do you properly incentivize people to run nodes and fairly balance supply and demand for both nodes and searches within the network? Some of these issues Presearch has already solved, and some will require continued experimentation and innovation over time, but Presearch will roll out both the platform and the decentralization of the platform incrementally to ensure an optimal ongoing search experience for the amazing Presearch community.
There are six core layers of the Presearch search engine architecture:
• Core Services: Advertising API, Account Management API, Search Rewards Tracking, Keyword
Staking, Marketplace, and other critical Presearch services which are centrally managed by Presearch.
• Web Server: Receives Search Requests from Presearch users and passes them on to the Gateway to
generate results. Returns a final, rendered results page to the user.
• Node Registry: Manages the identity of all nodes, node stats, and any rewards payouts to node
operators.
• Node Gateway: Receives requests from the Web Server, removes personally identifiable information
from the search requests, and passes the search to one or more healthy nodes.
• Nodes: Decentralized search “workers” which connect to the Node Gateway and perform search
operations. Each node is required to have a unique publicly-facing IP address.
• Search Packages: Open source plugins which return intelligent answers and info boxes in response
to specific queries. The following diagram shows the interactions between the major components
within the Presearch Search Architecture.
We're excited you're here and can't wait to watch you search with PRE!
So how do you stop nodes from ranking the results however they want? For example, I would love for all my projects to come up first on Presearch. What stops me from making myself the #1 search result for "Matt" when people connect to my node (as opposed to Matt Mullenweg who seems to be first among Matts at the moment)?
Maker
@mattwthomas Hey Matt!! Thank you so much for reaching out & thanks for engaging with our project! While we're in beta right now for our nodes, most of our node operators are altruistic & are not looking to be a node for malicious purposes. As we go live on main net in the middle of March, you will need to stake PRE in order to run a node. The reason for this is that if you act in a malicious way like you have described, you will lose the funds that you have staked, so there is a heavy monetary incentive to act in a benign way or you will lose significant funds. Other projects have shown that this is an effective strategy (Ethereum 2.0 staking, etc.) & prevents against fraud.
We'd live to have you join the telegram group to keep you posted as things progress. We love and appreciate your feedback!
@carrabre That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the explanation. As an Economist, I am a big proponent of systems like that.
Maker
@cormacncheese Thanks so much for engaging!! Presearch is a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better results while protecting your privacy and rewarding you when you search.
We believe that the best way to compete with the massive, centralized and monopolistic corporations that currently dominate search is to build a framework that enables people from all over the world to collaborate to build an open and decentralized search engine.