Android devices now offer a blockchain-based decentralized search engine

Android devices now offer a blockchain-based decentralized search engine

All new and refurbished Android devices in the UK and Europe will now allow users to change Google's default search option to one of the others, including the blockchain-based search engine, Presearch. Presearch claims that its private, decentralized search engine has more than 1 million registered users and 4 million searches per day, which it claims represents an increase of more than XNUMX% since January XNUMX. "With Android running on roughly XNUMX-fifths of the smartphones on the planet, including hundreds and hundreds of millions in Europe, we see this as a huge victory to integrate blockchain and decentralized services and also drive mass adoption," Colin said. Pape, creator of Presearch.

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Presearch is a decentralized search engine that uses geographically dispersed nodes to process search queries. In return, Presearch offers rewards to node operators in the form of Ethereum-based PRE tokens.

Penalize Google

The measure to let Android users choose their default search engine follows the European Commission's 1 resolution to sanction Google with 5 billion euros for abusing Android with the intention of increasing its participation in the search engine market. As a result, Google announced earlier this year that it would increase the number of web browsers on its default settings page. Starting September 7, XNUMX, Android devices will count the top XNUMX most popular selectable web browsers in each and every EU country, in random order, at the top of the Android options screen. These are going to be followed by up to XNUMX auxiliary web browsers at the bottom. Pape thinks the move could help Presearch gain millions of new users, which he sees as one of the biggest wins for any project in the crypto space.