Presearch Weekly News & Updates #154 — January 12th, 2024

Presearch

3 min readJan 12, 2024

This Week in Review

Find out about the latest progress with Presearch this week! Let’s start with the highlights…

334 million PRE staked!
PRE value ~$0.032 / 0.7 bit
CMC = 880, CG = 1,140
80k staked / 67k active nodes
Dev: anti-scraping defenses, monetization, bug fixes, AI results, Cosmos roadmap
Weekly Wins
Interim roadmap
Marketing, traffic & monetization update
Community questions

Weekly wins

We make great progress every week, but these are the Weekly Wins we’re most excited about!

Cosmos technical roadmap complete
Updated interim general roadmap published for community feedback (https://presearch.io/roadmap)
User referral program bonus increased from 25 PRE to 50 PRE
Approved for Amazon product listing ads
PTA country-level targeting now in testing

Marketing & Monetization update

We’re spreading the word to drive more users and increase the number of searches to build revenue!

Ad discussion
We are evaluating the best ways to capture value with the keyword staking advertising platform, and are looking for community feedback and ideas. We’ll be using the community.presearch.io forum to facilitate the discussion.
Topics include timeline and method for shifting to a consumptive model, ad positioning, targeting, and changes to ad formats, including limits to ad text length.
YouTuber outreach
The project has begun outreach to YouTubers and other crypto influencers to help bring awareness to Presearch. We have some coverage lined up already for later in January.
Increased referral program incentive + custom programs
To help drive more usage of Presearch, we’ve increased the referral bonus to 50 PRE for both the referrer and referee.
Amazon PLA approval
This approval paves the way for product listing ads powered by the world’s #1 ecommerce platform. We are excited about the potential to monetize while providing an improved search experience.
PTAs for promotion
Attention community members: Know of an influencer aligned with the Presearch mission who can help increase the number of quality searches? We are doing a a PTA for promotion swap campaign and will provide qualified influencers with PTAs if they introduce Presearch to their audience.
Traffic quality initiatives
As the team continues to battle bot traffic, we are running a number of experiments with different approaches to identifying low-quality traffic. Thank you for bearing with us as we try different methods.
Traffic continues to stabilize as we continue to take action to stop scraping of the network and bots, with traffic in the 1- 1.5m daily search range this week.
Outreach efforts expanding
Working with community members to focus on a number of
initiatives:
- PTA outreach via community — darwin@presearch.io
- General growth — collaborate@presearch.io
- Search API — collaborate@presearch.io