It’s fair to say that Presearch was treading water for a number of years, which was a shame after a promising start full of bright optimism. In fact it very nearly drowned according to some troubling revelations in the YouTube video below.

After this worryingly drawn-out baptism it appears to have been dragged from the depths and reborn into what it was always meant to be: a truly decentralised search engine. This time for real, with the latest launch of decentralised, tokenised crawler nodes and indexing, along with the genuine (not bullshit) AI involvement in the organisation and presentation of search results.

There is only one way to smash the Google monopoly with its sprawling millions of servers—both human and machine—and that is by way of an expanding decentralised node network providing authentic results to authentic queries. A crawler and indexing system that reaches deeper into repositories of data that are inaccessible due to paywall restrictions or are deprioritised by Google for reasons of profit or censorship.

The micromanagement of information is unsatisfactory and unedifying. And it can’t go on. After all, it didn’t set out like this. The internet began as a by-product of the research carried out at the CERN institute into the nature of our universe. But that luminous age of information exchange is slipping into obscurity. It’s dark, it’s dangerous, it’s depressing and it needs to stop.