Presearch Weekly News & Updates #155 — January 19th, 2024

Presearch

4 min readJan 19, 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 ~$0.029 / 0.7 bit
CMC = 895, CG = 1,150
80k staked / 66k active nodes
Dev: anti-scraping defenses -SEO abuse, back to captchas for flagged IPs, search reward bug, AI results -250 tokens, Cosmos
Weekly Wins
Marketing, traffic & monetization update
Community connection
PreGPT survey results
Community questions

Weekly wins

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

Ambassador program launched for promoting Presearch
Approved for a number of new high-quality affiliates -Home Depot, New Balance, Lenovo, etc.
Referral credit bonus for historic referrals not yet claimed from 25 to 50 PRE
RiceTVx interview with Tim live
4 more PTAs, bringing active total to 16
Tim Enneking X Space AMA with Coinstore on 01/18/24
Country-level targeting for PTAs now live

Marketing & Monetization update

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

YouTuber outreach
The project has begun outreach to YouTubers and other crypto influencers to help bring awareness to Presearch, and this week Tim and Rice did a session on RiceTVx, plus a CoinStore AMA. Lots more to come!
VirtualBacon YouTuber
YouTuber, VirtualBacon, with 243k subscribers, is covering Presearch and introducing the project to his audience. Videos typically receive tens of thousands of views. Let’s see what happens!
New ambassador program
We are working to release a new ambassador program that enables community members to earn additional income by helping to actively promote Presearch and increase the number of searches. Stay tuned for details next week.
PTAs ramping up, new targeting capabilities
4 more ads this week and a number in the pipeline, and now more options with the ability to target PTAs by country.
Referral program changes
To help drive more usage of Presearch, we’ve increased the referral bonus to 50 PRE for both the referrer and referee and also made it
retroactive for existing referrals that have not yet been claimed.
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. Reported traffic is likely to fluctuate and contain irregularities in the interim.

Community connection

As a community-driven project, Presearch thrives with your feedback and input — check out https://community.presearch.io to participate

Roadmap feedback
We’ve posted the latest version of the roadmap on the community platform for feedback. We look forward to your thoughts and help prioritizing initiatives.
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.
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.
Tagline / slogan feedback
Looking for community participation in determining the Presearch tagline / slogan. Thinking about doing a contest to choose a slogan that we incorporate onto a revised homepage that is more descriptive.
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