Decentralization continues to be one of the biggest factors motivating a significant portion of the companies that identify as Web3 technologies. A few upstarts like DuckDuckGo have carved out niche percentages, but no company has managed to make a dent in Google’s dominant market position.

The company was initially founded by https://twitter.com/colinpape?lang=en back in 2017, in response to the https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/07/28/local-business-site-challenges-google-ranking-2/ competing with Google at his previous start-up ShopCity.com.

Like other Web3 projects, part of the incentive for running a node is earning PRE tokens, which are the Presearch cryptocurrency.

DuckDuckGo and Brave have both captured small portions of the massive search space, along with a handful of other niche competitors.

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