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The World’s First (And Only) Web3 Search Engine

TL;DR

  • Most people use Web3 domain names to make their ​wallet's​ 'send to' address easier to remember/communicate.

  • But turns out, some folks are actually building websites using these domain names.

  • Web3compass.net​ launched as the worlds first Web3 search engine, so you can now find/visit these sites using a traditional web browser.

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You've heard of ​Web3​ domains - but have you heard of Web3 native websites?

Most people use Web3 domain names to make their ​wallet's​ 'send to' address easier to remember/communicate.

(e.g. send to 'web3daily.crypto' instead of '0xb794f5ea0ba39494ce839613fffba74279579268')

But turns out, some folks are actually building websites using these domain names.

Problem is, you can't find them using ​Web2​ search engines and traditional browsers won't load them without first being reconfigured.

(So they may as well not exist).

That was until two days ago, when ​web3compass.net​ launched as the worlds first Web3 search engine.

The developers even figured out how to get the Web3 sites listed in each search result to load on a traditional browser (no reconfiguring needed).

Very cool!

...but as with most early products - it's janky as hell.

The site looks like a monkey designed it and the search results are all over the place.

(But, hey - if you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late!)

Now, here's the opportunity:

There're only 40,000 Web3 native websites in existence right now.

If you go and make a page worth visiting, you could quite easily become the proud owner of the most visited Web3 site in the world ;)