this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
19 points (60.9% liked)

Technology

59377 readers
5130 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
19
Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ (presearch.com)
submitted 6 months ago by kurcatovium@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Browsing the web I came across this (meta) search engine. From the first glance, it seems promising and giving quite a good results to my searches. Definitely better than Google, Bing or DDG, which tend to be full of SEO/ads/AI bullshit these days. Does anyone use it?

It somehow implies it's open source and indeed there is github https://github.com/PresearchOfficial too, but I can't find any link from the presearch.com itself to it. It's just... IDK, weird?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] johny_joe_1975@discuss.online 40 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Presearch make proxy call to google, they add the wall and their own tracking and their own ads. Stay away.

In fact, stay away any project that have web3 or crypto

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

That crypto part must be new, it definitely wasn't there some time ago. Anyway, glad I'm not the only one smelling something fishy in this...

[–] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I‘ve tested Presearch like 2 years ago and even back then it already had these “PRE tokens” you could earn by using it and get more by gambling/betting on search terms.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

I was PRE-blind then, which is not unexpected...

load more comments (3 replies)