Search activity commonly leaves tracking signals, driving user demand for privacy-focused alternatives like DuckDuckGo and Brave Search. DuckDuckGo ranks fifth worldwide but holds under 1% market share compared with Google's nearly 90% share, largely due to Chrome integration. DuckDuckGo and Brave tie private search to trackers-blocking browsers. Presearch operates differently: a decentralized, distributed network of roughly 40,000 nodes that routes searches to prevent profiling. Presearch aggregates results from over 130 search engines and rewards community members with PRE cryptocurrency tokens for running searches. Presearch also runs an advertising business despite its non-tracking model.
But Presearch is taking a different approach. It describes itself as an "ethical, non-profiling meta-search engine," which is a mouthful, but basically means that it never tracks users and, rather than being tied to a traditional browser, operates on a decentralized network powered by its community of users that rewards them with its own cryptocurrency tokens - called PRE - in exchange for running searches.
AdExchanger: How would you describe Presearch in a nutshell, but without using the phrase "ethical, non-profiling meta-search engine"? TIM ENNEKING: It's not that jargony if you take the pieces apart! "Meta" refers to the fact that Presearch connects to just over 130 search engines. When you do a search with us, we pull from multiple other search engines and aggregate the results in one place.
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