Presearch is the search engine that pays you for your searches in cryptocurrency. Users are paid a small amount of PRE token for their searches, with PRE being worth over 8 cents each at the time of this writing. If you use a referral link when you sign up you can get 25 tokens to start, worth about $2 (mine is at the bottom).

OK, sounds good. How much flexibility does it have to let me filter my searches?

The answer right now is that you can do some basic search engine tricks but advanced options may be difficult or impossible right now.  I tried to ask them this question but they did not answer in time for me to publish this article. The options seem limited, particularly if I go to something like Google's 'advanced search' and compare the two.  I can only assume they're going to improve the user end options; but they do give you options to use another search engine right from their search page, just click on the logo below the search box, so you can always just use Presearch as your first option and click on others if you need more options.

But there are a few tips and tricks we can use to at least improve on using this search engine. These should work on most search engines.

First, there's simply your search terms. If you put in the word 'red', it will give you a lot of results...I think more results than there are people, I don't know how they do that. If you put in 'flower', it will give you a lot of results on flowers, most likely starting with a zillion companies that want to deliver flowers for you.

If you type in 'red AND flower' (yes, you capitalize 'AND'), now it's only going to give you results with both those terms. You could also type in 'red OR flower' if you wanted results that had either one or both of those terms.

You can even mix up 'AND' and 'OR' with parentheses. '(red OR green) AND (flower OR plant)' should give results on any plany or flower that is either red or green.

If you use quotes it will use your words in quotes as a search term. Using "red flower" as your search will bring back results with the exact phrase 'red flower'.

Lastly, you can re-do your search with a negative sign in front of a term you want excluded from your results. So if you type 'red flower' as your search and it gives too many sites about roses, you can re-do your search as 'red flower -roses' and it should try to give you results on red flowers without so many sites about roses (I say 'should' because it seems like search engines have a mind of their own).

There are a number of other ways to filter results and I'm not sure if they are all site-specific and if I can use them on Presearch I still haven't figured out how, but I am hoping Presearch makes advanced searches easier with some future update. I particularly like to limit searches with 'when the site was last updated' and 'site or domain' searches (e.g., 'what are all the results for my search on the site publish0x.com?' or 'what are all the results of my search on all *.gov sites?'), so if anyone knows how to incorporate 'last updated' or 'site or domain' searches into Presearch, let me know in the comments, please.  Much appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

If you haven't signed up for Presearch yet, you can get 25 PRE tokens by using my reference link, https://www.presearch.org/signup?rid=2330407.