And we are excited!

Prior to joining Presearch, Greg created an open source web crawler, CoCrawler and serves as an advisor to Common Crawl. Greg’s expertise on search dates back to 2007, when he co-founded Blekko, a search engine that was acquired by IBM Watson. Greg also joined the Internet Archive to build out search in the Wayback Machine. Previously Greg was a founder of Pathscale, where he was the system architect of the Infinpath network, currently being sold by Intel.

Presearch CEO Colin Pape:

“The introduction of the blockchain has enabled a new type of federated search engine to be built, powered by the community,” said Colin Pape, CEO of Presearch. “Greg’s deep technical experience in search and systems technology will allow Presearch to execute on its ambitious and visionary mission to democratize search.”

A Word From Greg Lindahl, Presearch CTO:

“I am impressed with Presearch’s vision of applying the blockchain to the challenge of building a decentralized search engine,” said Greg Lindahl. “I’m excited to apply the experience gained over several iterations of search and web crawling to help build the Presearch ecosystem and community.”

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