If this was a leaflet pushed through my door guess where it would go?
That's right, in the bin.
How many more supposedly professional people are gonna show up here with a business plan drawn on a fag packet? I mean seriously, what's going on? Where are you all coming from???
You people have no clue what it's like round here. Hundreds, if not thousands of coins have been announced, probably 95% of them were a scam.
What is this platform running on?
Do you have any source code to show?
Where is your business based?
Are the IPO funds being held in escrow?
Is there a timelock on them?
How do I earn money from this, mining, running a node?
Will you collect metadata from the searches?
If so, who will you sell it to, or share it with?
Etc, etc...
Sorry, NewWorldCoiner. Definitely had a mix-up here and certainly didn't intend for this to be our first impression.
You're right, we're definitely new and didn't realize there'd been so many scams...
I've read through a ton of posts for the past few weeks to get the lay of the land, but realize that is nothing compared to those of you who've built this place...
I come from a small town called Midland, in Ontario, Canada...
We locals call people from Toronto who just show up and think they own the place 'citiots'... Sucks that we've come across that way here! :|
I'll get you the exact details on the stack and source code tomorrow morning. I believe I know, but don't want to misspeak and lose more credibility.
Presearch is registered in Canada most of the team is in Canada and the US.
To be clear, this is not an IPO - it's simply a sale of tokens to customers.
We were not planning to hold funds in escrow, but would consider it.
Team tokens cannot be used for 3-6 months.
We recognize that this is a pretty massive undertaking.
We see the first stage being a fairly simple interface that leverages Google and other search engines to minimize resistance to switching to our search field.
I should mention that to start we are targeting desktop searchers, and particularly 'web workers' to start.
Users will be able to earn tokens (DSTs) for using the site (similar to the BAT model) and sharing it / referring people to it.
This stage will also incorporate a basic advertising platform that will enable advertisers to use DSTs to purchase unobtrusive keyword ads.
The next step is building out the full consensus model, enabling the community to guide the direction and features of the platform.
Members will be able to propose, vote on or fund projects, and devs will be compensated for their work, all with DSTs.
Ultimately, we believe the site will become a full search engine with its own index, but at this point there are a number of technologies we're waiting to be developed / proven that we'd need to make it fully decentralized.
To start, we believe that having an open, transparent search engine as an alternative would be a great step toward decentralizing the web.
This will be an open source project, and we can see it spawning a bunch of different search engines as people fork it for different purposes / niches.
At this point, we're looking for feedback and for people to poke holes in the logic so we can iterate.
And yes, we will collect metadata and have discussed a number of ways to make it available to participants.
I really miss the 'olden days' when you could get keyword data that was meaningful, before Google started blocking referrer info and when Google Analytics was Urchin.
Now it's just totally a black box and just about useless.
We'd like to change that and open things up...
Thanks for the great questions! I'll keep you posted on the technical answers.
Colin
