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Results seem incredibly close to Google's. REALLY close.

There is a LOT of talk about search engine economics in their site and vision (sic) paper but not much at a first glance about how this is supposed to work.

The two things I managed to find are:

> [0] The Presearch Engine harnesses the power of a number of the world’s top search engines and other data sources to provide users with a compelling search experience that offers great results, protects user privacy, provides more choice and control, while also being censorship-resistant.

> [1] There are more than 100 different search engine providers available to choose from, including general search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo, media search engines like YouTube and Facebook, and specialized search engines like Etherscan.io and Github.

So I guess it's a meta-search (think metacrawler) engine proxied through other peers (think tor) with extentions (think ddg) and a token (think profit)?

[0] https://www.presearch.io/ecosystem

[1] https://www.presearch.io/vision.pdf

Welcome to Presearch, i thought that you would all find this super interesting given the current landscape of censorship & centralized powers that be. We're a decentralized search engine powered by the community. We just launched our node-powered search engine this week, meaning you can run an instance on your computer or through a cloud provider like AWS and process searches that users query from our platform. If you want to be a beta node operator, create an account on Presearch, join our telegram group (https://t.me/PresearchNodes) & fill out our typeform (https://presearchcommunity.typeform.com/to/UkDumktm). Once you're accepted, head to https://nodes.presearch.org. We're excited to see you using a platform!

Why do users need your permission to run a node?

I'd be interested in this as well. I assume/hope this is a temporary thing, same as the reason someone mentioned why you haven't open sourced the project?

Also, you can try searching on our decentralized search engine through https://presearch.org

Is it opensource? How do I modify the search engine?

The search engine isn't currently open sourced as we're still a small project and don't want to get wrecked by competitors at such an early stage, but you can contribute by creating packages that layer on top of the search engine - you can see a few of those here - https://presearch.io/packages. You can search any cryptocurrency through presearch.org and see a community package that one of our community members made. Here's the github link to the community package code as well!

https://github.com/PresearchOfficial/presearch-packages

shoot me a message alex@presearch.io with any feedback, ideas etc. (:

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