Presearch Weekly News & Updates #153 — January 5th, 2024

Presearch

3 min readJan 5, 2024

This Week in Review

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

335 million PRE staked!
PRE value ~$0.038 / 0.9 bit
CMC = 830, CG = 1,030
80k staked / 66k active nodes
Dev: anti-scraping defenses, monetization, bug fixes, AI results, Cosmos roadmap
Weekly Wins
Airdrop & minting plan
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!

Airdrop & minting plan
2023 year in review / what’s in store for 2024 published on blog
Revised Advertise page launched (https://presearch.io/advertise)
Captcha suspended
Removal of extra keyword ad on search results
Reduction of number of Bing ads on mobile

Airdrop & minting plans

To support the continued growth and expansion of the project, and to reward the loyalty of the community,
Presearch plans to do an airdrop to coincide with a minting of PRE.
Please see the blog post at https://news.presearch.io for details.

Marketing & Monetization update

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

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.
Some solid leads have come through since our announcement last week and we look forward to more of these opportunities.
Revised Advertising site launched
Please take a moment to check out the newly- revised presearch.io/advertise site that provides information on the various advertising opportunities with Presearch.
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 stabilization
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.
PTA outreach ramping up
The Telegram outreach team, lead by Darwin, is ramping up outreach to crypto projects about Takeover Ads. Contact darwin@presearch.io if you’d like to help. We have a new Telegram group for those who are interested in helping that Darwin and Colin are active in.
Search API outreach
Still looking for people to assist in outreach to drive adoption of the Presearch search API — big opportunity here!
Growth marketing team
We’re continuing to align the growth marketing team and are wrapping up some of the major foundational improvements needed ahead of real growth marketing.