Most of us writing here at Steemit are fans of cryptocurrencies and making money online in some way. And yes, many of us have heard about Presearch, a way to make money while using the popular search engines out there. In fact, only a few days ago I wrote an article about how you can use Presearch combined with Ecosia, thus making money and planting trees searching at the same time.
Now, that is a very cool thing and I like it a lot, but I must also admit that I am getting a bit less enthusiastic about Presearch at the same time. I have written it down clearly in this article in the IP Address Guide, but to sum it up quickly, these are my main concerns using Presearch currently.
Main concerts with Presearch
- You have to search 4000 times using the Presearch tool in order to be able to make a withdrawal. That is a crazy amount of searches, and since I do believe most people give up before that, the only ones actually making money with Presearch are the creators.
- They now show you ads while you search, meaning that after every single search you are deemed to watch a 2-3 second ad before the search results actually show up. Presearch makes money once again, while the user suffers.
- Presearch most likely make money with every single search as they are working with the search engines like Bing and Google, and make money whenever a search request they have transferred to the engine ends up with an ad click. Once again Presearch makes money and way more money than what the user makes using the engine.
These are some of my concerns. The most important change would be to lower the amount of PRE-tokens that you need to earn in order to make a withdrawal. Then I also believe that the fact that the company actually make a lot of money on the ads in all parts of the search should somehow be shared with the users in a much better way.
So, these are some of my worries with Presearch. Are there any other Steemians other users out there using Presearch? How do you like it? Are you excited, worried, angry, or full of joy using the tool/engine?