Its decentralized data pipe replaces company-controlled supercomputers with a data pipe of thousands of user-controlled nodes that work together.

Node operators are rewarded with small amounts of PRE tokens for every query they process.

These tokens are also central to how ads are displayed on Presearch.

Presearch search engine homepage

Presearch

These are matched against user search queries.

Michael Christen, creator of the open source distributed search engineYaCy, remains unimpressed.

Unlike Presearch’s approach, YaCy’s decentralized internet relies on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

“That is not the case here [with Presearch].”