Presearch announced the launch of its decentralized, AI-native web index designed to surface content overlooked by mainstream search engines.
The privacy-focused search engine serves over 12 million searches per month.
Tim Enneking, CEO of Presearch, said the index restores access to the real web beyond what commercial search engines prioritize.
The platform operates through a decentralized network of over 40,000 community-run nodes.
What Happened
Presearch built the index to prioritize what it calls "Frontier Intelligence."
This includes independent journalism, small publishers, research communities and creator-led platforms without search engine optimization budgets.
Traditional search engines optimize results for advertising revenue and corporate interests, Enneking said.
The Presearch Index uses AI-native architecture with semantic understanding and clustering.
Community-run nodes perform crawling, indexing and ranking across independent computers worldwide.
The decentralized structure eliminates central choke points and single points of failure.
Users receive zero tracking with encrypted queries.
The platform rewards users with PRE tokens for every search conducted.
Enneking founded Digital Capital Management and previously managed the Crypto Currency Fund.
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Why It Matters
Only a handful of organizations maintain an independent web index.
Presearch joins Google, Bing and AI-chatbot-driven search as a structurally independent alternative.
The platform completed its transition from metasearch engine to fully autonomous search platform with its own index.
Presearch operates on Base, Coinbase's Layer 2 blockchain, enabling real-time transactions without high gas fees.
The platform has 150,000 active monthly users and processes over 400,000 daily searches, according to company data.
Advertisers including eToro, Bitcoin.com, Ledger and KuCoin use the platform to reach crypto-savvy audiences.
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