How To Get Paid Just By Navigating The Web
Go Google-free, protect your data, and earn a passive income.
In recent years, Big Tech companies have been subjected to scrutiny for perfecting a dark art pioneered by commercial newspapers, radio, and television: attracting and holding our attention, in order to sell access to our senses to paying advertisers. Whereas readers, listeners, and viewers were customers paying for some commodity, commercial electronic media learned how to profit by transacting directly with vendors while reducing us, and our data, to a passive commodity at the heart of the transaction.
Google, Facebook, and others could take this odd production process, where our attention is the traded commodity, to a different level, thanks to their stupendous capacity to personalize our screens. Unlike their forebears, they can capture the attention of each one of us with person-specific (or even mood-specific) attractors, before selling to the highest bidder access both to our data and to our senses.
“In using Big Tech’s services, we manufacture a portion of its capital in real time. Property rights over that portion — for all of us, rather than for any of us — must follow.”
— Yanis Varoufakis
Introducing Pre-search
The Pre-search Engine is a next-generation search engine built to provide the world with a decentralized alternative that operates more like a public utility on behalf of its community rather than shareholders.
Pre-search also protects your privacy because it doesn’t store any personal information by default, and queries are handled by a decentralized network of nodes running open-source software.
And if you are wondering about their search results’ quality, I can tell you I’ve quit Google for months now. I’ve been using Presearch for a long time to guarantee you that this engine offers results that are as good as the world’s top search engines. Last week's statistics also showed that almost 40% of active Presearch users aren’t taking part in the rewards system. Meaning that they’re using Presearch without being logged in. They are only here because they get high-quality results without having to sell off their data.
The Rewards System
Pre-search has a blockchain-based PRE token at the heart of its ecosystem. This token is built on an open-source, transparent, and decentralized platform called ‘Ethereum’ that handles the security and hosting of PRE.
As a Pre-search community member, you will earn Presearch reward tokens when you search, and when you refer others to join Presearch.
And if all this sounds unfamiliar and confusing, let’s make it simple.
All you have to do is create an account to join the Presearch community and use their search engine while surfing the Web.
You’ll earn around 0.1 PRE with every online search you make. You can think of it as a reward to you for contributing to the growth of Presearch.
At the time of writing this, 1 PRE token equals 6 cents/search isn’t a terrible deal at all. Don’t you agree?
Your first 32 online searches of the day (starting at 00:00 UTC) are generating rewards. If you exceed this number, you aren’t gaining rewards until the start of the next day. So, at the current price, you can make 32x0.06=$1.92/day. Or $52/month.
Another thing that you want to consider is the volatility of the cryptocurrency market. For example, 3 years ago the price of 1 PRE was around 0.71 cents.
But, be careful, if you try to abuse the reward system by making continuous useless searches, your PRE level account will keep dropping, making your reward tokens unable to withdraw. You can read more about it here.
So, if you just keep using Presearch as a normal search engine, without trying to abuse the reward system, everything will be fine.
Withdrawals And Final Thoughts
After gaining 1,000 PRE tokens(this number may change in the future), you can request a withdraw to an address in a cryptocurrency exchange that supports the PRE token (like Kucoin, or Uniswap) and convert your rewards in dollars, or Euros, or whatever. If you aren’t familiar with this process, that’s OK. You can find detailed instructions online, or ask a friend.
Apart from the rewards system and the money, I’m so into this project because I believe that the future of the internet and global economics will find itself inside blockchain projects that give more value and more power to the people, rather than undermining their necessity and exploiting their data.
Consider that this project is now making its first steps introducing itself to the world. Recently, Presearch engine hit 1 million searches in one day and it has over 2 million active users around the world. It’s completely free to join, and, as it keeps growing, the price of its token will increase due to high demand. Believe me, you want to be an early adopter.
