Presearch
Colin Pape is an experienced entrepreneur and community leader with a diverse background in technology and social innovation. As the Founder and Head of Community at Presearch since June 2017, Colin Pape is dedicated to creating a blockchain-powered search engine that emphasizes community involvement. In parallel, Colin Pape has served as Founder and CEO of ShopCity.com since 2008, focusing on connecting local businesses and consumers through interactive shop local campaigns. Additionally, Colin Pape contributes to social change as a Member of the Board of Trustees for Social Evolution, a non-profit organization aimed at addressing social issues through innovative mutual aid initiatives. Earlier career experience includes founding Axiom Digital Services, where Colin Pape provided web development and internet marketing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Colin Pape's education includes studies at Sheridan College from 1998 to 2001.
Presearch
Presearch is an open, decentralized search engine that rewards community members with Presearch Tokens for their usage, contribution to, and promotion of the platform.In a world where one company controls 77% of all searches, influencing trillions of dollars in spending, shaping perceptions and effectively acting as the primary gatekeeper to theInternet, a new, open and community-driven search engine is a necessity.Presearch has an innovative go-to-market strategy to target the most frequent searchers - web workers - and gain early adoption, on our way to releasing future versions of the open source platform that will utilize a blockchain-based index, curated by the community.