# Presearch.com, Decentralized Search Engine **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/presearch-com-decentralized-search-engine/26708 **Category:** Project Showcase **Created:** 2025-04-14T21:51:38Z **Posts:** 44 ## Post 1 by @Presearch — 2025-04-14T21:51:39Z Greetings all! We’re Presearch, a decentralized metasearch engine. We want to reach more people to give more privacy tools. Here’s what we do, let us know your thoughts. Presearch is a decentralized metasearch engine that routes search queries through a globally distributed network of nodes to anonymize and detach the user from the query. The project is designed to eliminate centralized data collection, prevent behavioral profiling, and resist censorship or surveillance. Presearch protects you from 1) centralized surveillance (search query logging), 2) behavioral profiling, 3) government subpoenas/data requests. Presearch is not an anonymity network (use with Tor/VPN for enhanced privacy). Here are the search providers used: [https://docs.presearch.io/presearch-engine/metasearch](https://docs.presearch.io/presearch-engine/metasearch) The website itself [https://presearch.com](https://presearch.com) and more documentation [https://docs.presearch.io](https://docs.presearch.io). We believe that as it is now and as we continue to iterate on the product, searching on Presearch will be truly private as other search engines falsely advertise, and easy for people of wide privacy backgrounds to take advantage of the service. Let us know your thoughts… they’re immensely valuable to us. --- ## Post 2 by @Bhaelros — 2025-04-14T21:57:19Z I did a simple search test and here are the results. I think results speak for themselves. Your site ![image](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/3/3c587abe0fea78c287893b6167694bde110b3f5c.png) Brave search ![image](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/b/b70b20909ebf971b96cce2840ea64dcdca88d963.jpeg) Google search ![image](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/f/f0df8dfed697675e23033a189fca2d95faede443.png) Bing ![image](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/e/e18a614b074ca4da472ae1177081f07063caca26.png) --- ## Post 3 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-04-14T21:58:40Z I got nsfw ads on this website… Seems sketchy af. --- ## Post 4 by @Presearch — 2025-04-14T22:24:10Z Yes, you have the choice to toggle NSFW mode on or off, which you may have toggled. Whether the user wants to see those ads is up to them. --- ## Post 5 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-04-14T22:25:15Z I dont have any switch touched. Anyway it seems your website also shows ads for illegal online casino’s. So those are my thoughts sketch af. --- ## Post 6 by @Presearch — 2025-04-14T22:51:27Z > [@ph00lt0](#): > > I dont have any switch touched. Anyway it seems your website also shows ads for illegal online casino’s. So those are my thoughts sketch af. Totally understand. We take a more open approach to advertising, giving companies and creators, especially those restricted on other platforms, a place to reach their audience. We know it’s not for everyone, but some users actively seek out this kind of content, and we aim to be a respectful option for them. Importantly, Presearch provides a private way to search, so if someone is looking for adult content, let’s say, they can do so without it being logged, tracked, or tied to their identity; with some peace of mind. > [@Bhaelros](#): > > I did a simple search test and here are the results. I think results speak for themselves. I tried really hard to presume what you were implying, but I wasn’t successful :upside_down_face: If you spell it out for me I can give a response. --- ## Post 7 by @Bhaelros — 2025-04-14T23:05:13Z Look at the page layout and ads. Also, search results are not as good as others. Especially Google is providing better results. I did all the searches within the same Brave browser, using same Brave Shields config. --- ## Post 8 by @Presearch — 2025-04-14T23:24:09Z Gotcha, thank you. On results: The results might feel more polished because of a centralized index and subtle source ranking, but that comes at the cost of trusting one company’s judgment and potential data mixing. Presearch is giving you the results that come before assumptions. Presearch gives true user control and privacy, and we’re building an independent search index that will give you the best of both experiences. At the end of the day, the objective is to protect user data. Brave cannot guarantee that. We can. For layout and ads: I have to once again ask for you to give me your explicit thoughts :slightly_smiling_face:… what’re you thinking? --- ## Post 9 by @Presearch — 2025-04-14T23:29:44Z And I’ll put this in a reply to me, but some use cases for Presearch’s results: One searcher was struggling to access public records due to location-based search filtering, and turned to Presearch. They discovered that Presearch’s decentralized approach delivered global results that other engines no longer did. It became a vital tool for uncovering obscured information, particularly around government transparency, and restored their access to less biased data that they had been blinded to elsewhere online. Another user had spent years trying to find a specific image. Success only came when she tried Presearch, suggesting that other platforms had scrubbed or buried the content. This is information that otherwise be hidden, filtered, or out of reach if not using Presearch. --- ## Post 10 by @anon15316990 — 2025-04-15T00:30:55Z Like the other poster, I find this doesn’t look clean because of all the ads. The bigger issue is that this setup feels insecure and lacks privacy. It’s too easy to click on the ads, many of which look sketchy, and that’s dangerous because those links can hide malware, direct you to phishing sites to steal your login or financial details, or lure you into scams.Also, seeing that your privacy policy hasn’t been updated since June 1st, 2022, doesn’t build confidence. ![Screenshot 2025-04-14 at 8.19.06 PM](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/1/15774cc9f30def63e91e17e969ff53c0d058f550.jpeg) --- ## Post 11 by @Presearch — 2025-04-15T00:46:15Z @anon15316990 Thank you so much. Some of this is immediately fixable, others longer-term. But all definitely addressable, and because of your input so I thank you gratefully. --- ## Post 12 by @anon15316990 — 2025-04-15T00:56:38Z While the interface looks somewhat better with uBlock Origin installed using base settings, the cryptocurrency integration continues to make me a bit uncomfortable, particularly because they don’t appear to be widely recognized coins. Regarding search results, a cursory glance reveals little noticeable difference between Presearch and DuckDuckGo, my primary search engine. Duck Assist, however, seems preferable as it doesn’t require wallet funds for use. With uBlock Origin ![Screenshot 2025-04-14 at 8.48.03 PM](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/3/378e4ee36eb090ed78afb58bc24c5c00d595519f.jpeg) --- ## Post 13 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-04-15T02:51:24Z SearXNG is an AGPL licensed meta search engine that has multiple instances running by the community along with plenty of integrations and the ability to self host. Presearch does not have AGPL licensed server code from what I can find. In terms of privacy, Mullvad Leta + SearXNG is just better from what I see. It’s not perfect, as Leta is minimal, and SearXNG instances get blocked easily. But I can self host SearXNG today and can validate code running on other instances. Leta already has reputation because of Mullvad. This these two generally protect against all of the things you say you are protecting against. If you are suggesting that your service still needs to be accessed via Tor / VPN for anonymity, then I don’t know what the decentralizations strategy does for an end user that SearXNG doesn’t solve by accessing it with Tor / VPN. It’s either trusting Presearch the company, Mullvad whose been in the game and trusted for a while, or a SearXNG instance operator. I’d like to be sold on why I should bother switching when I have these two options together. — Some additional questions to help with the above. Perhaps these are in your docs, but these seem very relevant for discussion here as part of discovery for readers: Is Presearch doing its own indexing atop the integrations, or what other advantages are there compared to SearXNG / Leta accessed via Tor? Are your integrations through official channels or scraped like SearXNG? Does Presearch plan on licensing their server side code as AGPL, or another FOSS license? Or did I miss the repo. If it’s decentralized, and there are nodes, are the nodes run by the community? Is this also AGPL licensed? What query metadata is propagated through the nodes? Aside from ads, how does Presearch make money? Do you get paid for doing specific integrations? I ask the latter as there are a suspicious number of crypto integrations built in. Are you a VC backed company? Do you get paid for click through rates with integrations? EDIT: this isn’t to say I’m against it, but Im highly skeptical of companies providing free-ish services that say they respect privacy without a clear conversion plan. There’s a bottom line somewhere, and it must be reached. If that bottom line is Malware ads - fine, I can live with that. However, uBlock will catch up and block them, and the privacy crowd all has this installed - how will money be made? How will this service be maintained? --- ## Post 14 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-04-15T03:06:22Z More questions: Who are your parent or subsidiary organizations that you’d need to share information to? What information do you share with partners? What aggregated and anonymized data do you share with others for public data sets? Why do I need to attach a blockchain wallet to Presearch and transfer through it? What is the concept of earning tokens for searching? --- ## Post 15 by @faxe — 2025-04-15T10:35:36Z Hey, thanks for the product showcase. The following feedback is purely based on some quick testing from a “normal browser user” perspective and does not take your decentralized approach into account since I have yet to check out the docs. First of all I’d like to say that the search results (for the few topics I searched) were quite good for me for casual browsing. Can’t yet tell how this relates to doing deeper research on a topic. Also I’m personally not a fan of the choice of the ad topics (crypto, gambling, etc.) but that’s your choice and others might be okay with it. As for the browsing experience, it feels very cluttered. I use Brave with shields set to agressively block trackers and ads and to block fingerprinting and third party cookies (usually I also block scripts, but I changed that for testing purposes). ![Presearch with JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/9/97e807d441467ce81275b345e3c80f3cd82c6513.jpeg) For example in this screenshot, everything outside of the red rectangle is more or less useless (except maybe also the menu button) but is dominantly displayed and adds distraction. I might be stupid, but I didn’t find a way to turn any of this off within the menu. The links to your socials and crypto stuff etc. add no value to the search and should not be stealing the focus of the results. And this is after setting Brave shields to agressively block ads and trackers, since it’s way worse without that (even with disabled backgrounds). I wanted to disable javascript to enhance the experience, but that’s not possible. I also find it quite ironic that this search engine can’t show search results without javascript, but surely can display ads on the main search page. ![Presearch main page without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/c/c825fc7b53e2f530ba3dbcbc7bf0f529063a6f86.png) ![Presearch search results without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/d/d2282e95bd02c19094bd75cd1d5d67477c673efd.jpeg) For comparison here are also some screenshots of how competiting search engines look without javascript and the same brave shield settings. ![Brave main page without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/5/5dd18bab9927677ee517945fa0f4c693d85193d0.jpeg) ![Brave results without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/1/1e0fe9a07339bb1e854a3f3088bebe9b32dc04bf.jpeg) ![DDG main page without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/f/fb049a88f1474bb3ff94aa5fe13d66194bbc6776.png) ![DDG results without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/8/8f766134117babd4ac7089100543be6f227e26aa.png) ![Leta main page without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/b/b3fef7c03443da649b4fd034b63dee7f3f4b3ee9.png) ![Leta results without JS](//forum-uploads.privacyguidesusercontent.com/original/2X/9/97b7ead643759272ef6c73c7b1f77fee204d67e6.png) #### Conclusion With brave search, ddg and leta I personally have no real use for presearch. The main selling point seems to be the decentralization, for which I have yet to check out the docs, but I doubt that it will outweight the cons of the user interface for the average search engine user and even for most of the people here. I really hope you reconsider removing all the crypto and gambling stuff and creating a clean search (and maybe also an even sleeker one that works without javascript) before thinking about how you can add ads without adding too much distraction. As of now, with the default experience with backgrounds, all the small ads and links and the “ADVERTISE WITH US” button prominently displayed, it feels more like an advertisement platform that also does search and not the other way around. edit: hope I caught all typos --- ## Post 16 by @Mossturtlecoffee — 2025-04-15T13:56:03Z I had a Presesearch account several years ago which I had deleted. Some time later I started getting spam on the email alias I was using. --- ## Post 17 by @Valynor — 2025-04-15T15:32:12Z > [@Presearch](#): > > We take a more open approach to advertising, giving companies and creators, especially those restricted on other platforms, a place to reach their audience. I would like to rephrase that into: “We don’t care about serving ads to our customers that are deliberately designed (in the case of Online Casinos) to draw them into addiction and financial debt.” I don’t condone such business ethics and I would never recommend Presearch to anyone because of it. --- ## Post 18 by @anon48875053 — 2025-04-15T17:12:40Z I agree, gambling ads are completely unacceptable. --- ## Post 19 by @anon80779245 — 2025-04-15T19:24:54Z > [@Presearch](#): > > Presearch is a decentralized metasearch engine that routes search queries through a globally distributed network of nodes to anonymize and detach the user from the query. If it is decentralized, then it means you aren’t the only one hosting the nodes. Then where is the Git repo? --- ## Post 20 by @anon80779245 — 2025-04-15T19:37:05Z Must say, news search is quite good. --- ## Post 21 by @KevPham — 2025-04-15T20:06:58Z Can you elaborate on your business model, especially since advertisers can “bet” on keywords with a token system? I am concerned that the relevance of advertisements can take a darker turn as mentioned by the rest of the community. --- ## Post 22 by @Presearch — 2025-04-15T20:34:14Z Reading and will be getting to everyone’s responses, thank you all. --- ## Post 23 by @djkilla — 2025-04-16T00:04:47Z I gave Presearch a try and actually like it. The results are the same as DuckDuckGo which I use. I do have some quick questions though: 1. What is the difference between the NSFW Mode and Safe Search settings? They seem the same to me. 2. Do you or will you have a way to save the settings similar to DuckDuckGo? For example, I can save my settings within a link in my bookmark like this: [%s at DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&k1=-1&kac=-1&kae=d&kaj=u&kak=-1&kao=-1&kap=-1&kaq=-1&kau=-1&kax=-1&kc=-1&kk=-1&kn=1&kp=-2&kz=-1&t=h_&kbe=0&ia=web) ← (Hover over with your mouse pointer to see the complete link) Other options DuckDuckGo offers are to save your settings as a json file or see the settings in cookie data. Additional info: > **[How To Use URL Parameters To Change Your DuckDuckGo Search Settings -...](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/settings/params)** > > DuckDuckGo doesn’t track you. That’s the DuckDuckGo privacy policy in a nutshell. 1. Questions from previous posters are extremely important to me to be sure that your service is indeed privacy oriented. I too use uBlock so I’m not worried about the ads as they can be taken care of on my end (everyone takes privacy seriously here so I’m sure you understand we all have tools that will be used to assure privacy). Hopefully your web site will rise above but until then, I’ll wait for your answers and what the community recommends. --- ## Post 24 by @anon92357554 — 2025-04-16T01:07:49Z Dug into the engine a few months ago to potentially add it to my self-hosted searXNG instance. I think the entanglement w/ crypto makes it hard to see the product seriously. Also, this gave me pause from the privacy policy: > We may share transient information with trusted partners during a particular request, for purposes of providing the Service. **This may include trusted advertising providers** who contractually agree to delete the information after the request is completed so that it is not stored. > **[Presearch](https://account.presearch.com/privacy-policy)** > > Presearch is a decentralized search engine, powered by the community. Can you speak to what data is shared with ‘trusted advertising partners’? --- ## Post 25 by @Presearch — 2025-04-16T17:09:12Z Have to get to these sporadically in small batches – apologies, can’t do it all at once. I’ll address the crypto more in a future post… but understandable. Because of this forum we’re leaning toward changing the AI search result to have free answers populate (most of the world expects this by now) without the need to stake to use. Now for the crypto rewards, none of that is needed to continue searching in private. A lot of people found value in having a monetary reward for searching, instead of Google monetizing your data (and others storing it), and digital assets were optimal versus fiat. Maybe we think that out as well, but most importantly its for punishing bad behavior for nodes. edit: For results – At the moment I can’t speak for DDG’s engine (I’ll come back to you with some answers, but they’re no doubt findable) but our results right now are the least biased and assumptions. Again, some people like their internet service knowing and assuming everything about them to suggest some cool shoes. Others want a very direct answer based on their query, and without those queries and data being stored for entities to get into if they’re powerful enough. And if you don’t want to be rewarded but still use the privacy and direct results that other engines don’t give, you don’t have to anything but search. You’re next @overdrawn98901… --- ## Post 26 by @Presearch — 2025-04-25T20:45:21Z Still here… still overdrawn next. :slight_smile: Appreciate everyone, again. Will get to it. --- ## Post 27 by @Presearch — 2025-04-30T18:36:01Z Presearch was acquired by a new team less than two years ago. We are working to make the project more open, including deciding on correct licensing. Presearch nodes are decentralized, run by the community. Nodes earn PRE tokens for being available and for processing searches on a network of over 40,000 nodes. This architecture ensures that no single entity controls user data, reducing the risk of centralized data breaches or profiling. Each search is routed anonymously through this network, enhancing user privacy by design. However, the rest of the project is centralized; the team is currently working to remedy that. Presearch is currently scraping while we develop our own proprietary index. We are designing a new, fully decentralized search index. We are looking for interested community members to participate (those with search, decentralization and AI experience). This will be an open source project. A more user-friendly interface may appeal to those who prefer a more straightforward setup compared to self-hosting SearXNG instances.​ The other search engines (that you might see listed on PG) have your data for governments to take or hackers to breach. Presearch does not. Money through selling ads, but never profiling users on the site to track them for personalization. As well as staking for keywords and affiliates in search results; these search results are always organic and not irrelevant long-tail and adjacent… always exactly what you’re searching for. Currently raising via Wefunder and external means to stay alive. Again, some people love personalized ads. Those who hate them can use Presearch… …and re: registration/blockchain, you don’t have to set up a wallet if you don’t want compensation for searching, or have no interest in running a node for compensation. You can search without your data being tacked or being profiled for hyper-personal ads that advertisers might value more. Those running ad-blockers, and not paying for ad-free version, will probably not be helping the service’s money-making. So: > Who are your parent or subsidiary organizations that you’d need to share information to? Technically no parents, however investors are somewhat like parents: We share high level financials with them. > Subsidiares? None. > What information do you share with partners? - Presearch Takeover Ads advertising partners: number of impressions per ad, number of clicks per ad, number of searches by geography, number of searches on homepage/search page, mobile/desktop, searches per browser type - Affiliate advertising partners: first three octets of IP for geolocation, browser type - To be clear, if you select on an advertiser’s ad and go to their website, we have no control over what they collect > What aggregated and anonymized data do you share with others for public data sets? None. > Why do I need to attach a blockchain wallet to Presearch and transfer through it? For PRE token transfers, like the majority of digital asset transfers, you need to provide a blockchain wallet to send or receive tokens. Not needed if you just want private search. > What is the concept of earning tokens for searching? Incentivize and reward usage of a service that monetizes with non-data intrusive methods. It’s hard to break a habit for most people, but that habit that a majority of the world has comes at the cost of data privacy. > Do you get paid for doing specific integrations? I ask the latter as there are a suspicious number of crypto integrations built in. Please provide some specifics regarding “there are a suspicious number of crypto integrations built in." There’s a few instances you might be referring to, either search providers that are crypto-related or the icons that show the native asset information on different platforms. Probably the latter? No payment for those. > Are you a VC backed company? Yes > Do you get paid for click through rates with integrations? It depends upon the advertiser. We get paid for the number of impressions for an ad, the click through rates of an ad and/or actual signups/subscriptions/purchases derived from someone clicking on an ad. --- ## Post 28 by @Presearch — 2025-04-30T18:36:59Z Next on the priority list! --- ## Post 29 by @Bhaelros — 2025-04-30T18:52:57Z > [@Presearch](#): > > Those running ad-blockers, and not paying for ad-free version, will probably not be helping the service’s money-making. Well, I don’t think anyone in this forum uses browsers and internet without tracker and ad protection. --- ## Post 30 by @Presearch — 2025-04-30T20:13:45Z > [@Bhaelros](#): > > Well, I don’t think anyone in this forum uses browsers and internet without tracker and ad protection. That’s quite alright. --- ## Post 31 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-04-30T20:27:19Z > [@Presearch](#): > > Presearch is currently scraping while we develop our own proprietary index. > > We are designing a new, fully decentralized search index. We are looking for interested community members to participate (those with search, decentralization and AI experience). This will be an open source project. Hmmm, are these two at odds with each other? A proprietary index means closed source, but you also say it’s open source. But thanks for answering the questions in detail. I’m quite happy to see new competition in the custom indexed search engine market - we desperately need it. > [@Presearch](#): > > The other search engines (that you might see listed on PG) have your data for governments to take or hackers to breach. Let’s not spread FUD however. Not all users are facing threat models of government dipping into search data, and non-government hackers getting search engine data is also quite a specific threat model to secure against. We also don’t know Presearch is resistant to government threats until it happens. > [@Presearch](#): > > Please provide some specifics regarding “there are a suspicious number of crypto integrations built in." There’s a few instances you might be referring to, either search providers that are crypto-related or the icons that show the native asset information on different platforms. Probably the latter? No payment for those. While I praise Monero for being anonymous, Crypto in general is also highly correlated with scams. This is not to say Presearch is a scam, but the higher usage of crypto integrations for any reason brings skepticism among many. --- ## Post 32 by @overdrawn98901 — 2025-05-03T14:38:28Z > [@Presearch](#): > > Presearch nodes are decentralized, run by the community. Final question, is there documentation on how I can setup a Presearch node myself? --- ## Post 33 by @Presearch — 2025-05-12T21:17:05Z Feel free to reach out to this account in DM as well. [Node Setup Instructions | Presearch Docs](https://docs.presearch.io/nodes/setup) --- ## Post 34 by @dairymilkbatman — 2025-05-19T11:09:03Z Another vote for presearch here. I think I have devised a good test for search engines. Try and find specific things deemed antisemitic such as; what speech is at the end of Ye’s song (HH), and all of the engines failed miserably except presearch. So I now know that brave is failing. --- ## Post 35 by @ImTooPhaT — 2025-05-19T13:04:40Z > [@dairymilkbatman](#): > > Try and find specific things deemed antisemitic such as; what speech is at the end of Ye’s song (HH), and all of the engines failed miserably except presearch. So I now know that brave is failing. Oh, that’s actually interesting. Will have to test this for myself (putting aside the ads). --- ## Post 36 by @anon80779245 — 2025-05-19T15:25:29Z > [@dairymilkbatman](#): > > what speech is at the end of Ye’s song Brave, Google, DuckDuckGo are all suceeding in my test when querying “what speech is at the end of Ye’s song” --- ## Post 37 by @ImTooPhaT — 2025-05-19T15:31:30Z All of them showed articles about the song for me. I might have to think of other topics that are often censored. But isn’t that what Tor is potentially used for? --- ## Post 38 by @dairymilkbatman — 2025-05-20T06:06:17Z Yes it appears they are working now! so presearch was merely faster -somehow. --- ## Post 39 by @Regime6045 — 2025-05-20T13:03:57Z When using Presearch without an account are there any restrictions (e.g. x searches per day)? It seems to work fine without account but there’s lots of nudging towards logging in. --- ## Post 40 by @Presearch — 2025-05-20T15:33:32Z Hey all. Still going to go in order here, but when the quick Q’s pop up I’m compelled to reply: > [@Regime6045](#): > > When using Presearch without an account are there any restrictions (e.g. x searches per day)? It seems to work fine without account but there’s lots of nudging towards logging in. No restrictions without an account. … Jeez, overdrawn was 20 days ago. --- ## Post 41 by @Presearch — 2025-05-30T17:24:22Z > [@faxe](#): > > Hey, thanks for the product showcase Thank _you_! > [@faxe](#): > > First of all I’d like to say that the search results (for the few topics I searched) were quite good for me for casual browsing. Can’t yet tell how this relates to doing deeper research on a topic. Also I’m personally not a fan of the choice of the ad topics (crypto, gambling, etc.) but that’s your choice and others might be okay with it. Great. I’d be interested to hear if you do a deep research test. I understand the take on the ad inventory that were crypto or gambling related. It depends on the market of our ad inventory; for instance now you might see an electric bike ad. Pros and cons of no profiling and serving verticals that others don’t. > [@faxe](#): > > As for the browsing experience, it feels very cluttered. I use Brave with shields set to agressively block trackers and ads and to block fingerprinting and third party cookies (usually I also block scripts, but I changed that for testing purposes). The right side of search results is specifically set aside for ads so it would be blank if ads are blocked. We’re getting rid of some of the icons as well that you suggested. This feedback did have me prompt utilizing the right side for the users seeing ad-free. What companies/sectors would you prefer to have advertised? Thank you immensely for the thoughts and words, @faxe, very helpful! --- ## Post 42 by @Presearch — 2025-08-13T18:38:24Z > [@Mossturtlecoffee](#): > > I had a Presesearch account several years ago which I had deleted. Some time later I started getting spam on the email alias I was using. I can’t tell you why that happened some time ago. Today, when registered users delete their account, any associated information is deleted. > [@Valynor](#): > > I would like to rephrase that into: > > “We don’t care about serving ads to our customers that are deliberately designed (in the case of Online Casinos) to draw them into addiction and financial debt.” > > I don’t condone such business ethics and I would never recommend Presearch to anyone because of it. Thank you for the response @Valynor, @anon48875053 . We don’t desire addiction and debt to Presearch users who see an online gaming ad. There are other advertisements users will see, but I obviously appreciate the feedback. What would be optimal for you, @Valynor ? > [@anon80779245](#): > > If it is decentralized, then it means you aren’t the only one hosting the nodes. Then where is the Git repo? > **[Node Setup Instructions | Presearch Docs](https://docs.presearch.io/nodes/setup)** > > Get your node up and running in just a few minutes on your computer. Correct, there’s tens of thousands of people running nodes, making the decentralized architecture that powers Presearch. Some of the foundational architecture features: - Node Registry, Gateway, and decentralized nodes that perform tasks like request processing, federating results, crawling, indexing, etc. - The network routes search queries through these nodes, stripping identifiable information for user privacy and combining results before presenting them to users. - Running a node is recommended on computers powered on 24/7 due to uptime score statistics. - Installation or management of a node can be done over any operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, other of your choice) as long as you can access the underlying docker application. - There is no preferred setup as the main goal is to support decentralization > [@anon80779245](#): > > Must say, news search is quite good. Great. What did you like @anon80779245? > [@KevPham](#): > > Can you elaborate on your business model, especially since advertisers can “bet” on keywords with a token system? I am concerned that the relevance of advertisements can take a darker turn as mentioned by the rest of the community. > **[What is Keyword Staking? | Presearch Docs](https://docs.presearch.io/keyword-staking/keyword-staking)** > > Keyword Staking is a revolutionary new concept being pioneered by Presearch as it builds the world’s first decentralized search engine framework. Presearch lets advertisers stake PRE tokens on specific keywords. Whoever stakes the most tokens for a given keyword gets their ad displayed when users search that term. Users can report irrelevant or spammy ads, helping the team refine ad quality; relevancy is also dependent on supply of stakers. @djkilla next. --- ## Post 43 by @anon11657877 — 2025-08-13T18:57:49Z - Requires JavaScript - Collects PII including IP address - Shares PII with third parties - [Privacy Policy](https://account.presearch.com/privacy-policy) > Business Transfers. We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding. > Partners. We may share transient information with trusted partners during a particular request, for purposes of providing the Service. This may include trusted **advertising providers** - powered by blockchain technology. > [This software is currently not open source and you are relying on our assurances that nothing malicious is happening underneath the hood.](https://nodes.presearch.com/run) Sounds like a crypto scam to me. Avoid. --- ## Post 44 by @anonymous396 — 2025-08-13T19:11:10Z > [@Presearch](#): > > Thank you for the response @Valynor, @Lukas . We don’t desire addiction and debt to Presearch users who see an online gaming ad. There are other advertisements users will see, but I obviously appreciate the feedback. What would be optimal for you, @Valynor ? I thought they were very clear, like—oh, IDK—no gambling or other kinds of exploitative ads?