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Adot: The Search Engine Ushering in the Web3 Era

Enterprise
July 4, 2023

Adot is a groundbreaking search engine designed for the Web3 and AI era, backed by leading VCs and strategic investment institutions. Seamlessly integrating on-chain and off-chain data, Adot makes accessible to everyone a comprehensive understanding of the Web3 landscape like never before.

The Internet is a vast, sprawling universe of information, and we rely on search engines to navigate this expanse. Being the starting point of 93% of online experiences, search engines are an indispensable cornerstone of the Internet.

But for most of us, when we use search engines we already hold the expectation that we’re unlikely to find the information we truly need. Instead, we’re bombarded with irrelevant information and search-engine-optimized web pages that try to sell us products we don’t need.

Already, only 24% of professionals surveyed predicted that they would continue to use search engines to find information in the future, compared to using AI chatbots which can give more tailored answers.

All this irrelevant information is part of the mere 10% of all information on the Web that Google indexes. The indexing and data encoding mechanisms that search engines use remain largely unchanged for decades, preventing them from accessing data in other ecosystems like the deep web and Web3.

As we move into an era marked by advancements in blockchain and artificial intelligence, the need for a new kind of search engine - one that can keep pace with these technological advancements - becomes clear.

Enter Adot, your personal guide into the new digital world dawning upon us.

Adot is a smart and decentralized search engine designed for the Web3 era, which has already raised US$3 million from leading VCs and strategic investment institutions from China, Singapore, and Silicon Valley.

It allows users to easily access off-chain and on-chain data, relevant and tailored to the user’s query through leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies.

Offering an open-source data framework and full coverage of Web3 data, users can enjoy accurate, scalable, and indexed data in seconds, on top of being rewarded for their data contributions.

Welcome to the future. Welcome to Adot.

What can Adot do?

Adot covers a broad scale of Web3-related data. This includes on-chain asset data such as NFTs and token information, user decentralized identifiers, and linked data like user wallet addresses and social media accounts.

Demonstration of Adot’s capabilities

Adot’s high and diverse coverage of data sources makes it a powerful analytics tool.

Adot is more than a simple search engine - it’s a comprehensive tool for understanding and navigating the Web3 ecosystem.

It can access on-chain data like transactions, wallet activity, and the liquidity of a project. But that’s just the basic stuff - Adot’s comprehensive search capabilities allow users to search for microscopic things like the metadata of an NFT.

Adot can look at the information associated with a user’s blockchain wallet address, such as their transactions and interactions with other addresses, and use this to create relationship graphs that show how different users and addresses are connected to each other.

But the true power of Adot lies in allowing users to read the information as a whole.

Accessing off-chain data to paint a full picture

But we all know that such data isn’t enough - which is why we use platforms like Twitter and Substack to stay updated or understand the general sentiment.

Adot also includes project and content data scattered across Web2 pages and decentralized storage. For example, while previously one would have to spend hours trawling Twitter and Discord, Adot can tell you the community sentiment on an NFT project at a glance.

Adot can also gather and analyze data from social media accounts linked to a blockchain wallet address, and the other addresses it has a strong connection with.

It’s this comprehensive coverage that allows Adot to provide a complete and accurate picture of the Web3 ecosystem.

Who can use Adot to its full capabilities?

In a nutshell, Adot provides value for everyone in Web3.

Here’s how different users can benefit from Adot:

Creators:

Adot empowers the creator economy by creating a more effective content distribution channel.

Breaking down walls across applications and protocols, and improving the traditional sorting algorithm to distribute content to more targeted audiences, can bring creators exponential traffic and income.

Token and NFT Traders/Degens:

Adot can not only analyze the liquidity of a project based on its transaction data but also analyze a new community by its related social data.

For example, understanding how sophisticated a community is would allow traders to make informed decisions about their investments and involvement in various projects.

People who don’t want to get scammed (i.e. everyone)

Adot provides a safe way for everyone to experience Web3. It can look at the information associated with a user’s blockchain wallet address, such as their transactions and interactions with other addresses.

This data is used to create relationship graphs that show how different users and addresses are connected to each other. By linking this to off-chain data like social media accounts, Adot can identify serial rug-pullers and suspicious activity. This ensures a safer and more transparent Web3 experience for all users.

Developers

Adot provides efficient data tools that allow developers to implement Adot’s indexing technology into their own projects. This modular open-source framework can operate in no-code or low-code modes, making it accessible to developers of all skill levels.

The goal is to drive the adoption of Adot’s infrastructure and assist in the collection of decentralized data for ecosystem development.

Composable Search Engine Applications

As part of their commitment to open source, Adot is launching composable search-engine applications that enable users and developers to build their own personalized search engines to fulfill various use cases.

Developers of any dApp can utilize the customized API interfaces and unified data query tools that Adot provides. These tools allow developers to query data according to personalized needs and easily implement data indexing and parsing functions, which can significantly reduce development and deployment costs.

Low-code Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Adot provides low-code SDKs and powerful search services to help developers build their own dApps. Even developers with zero search experience can deploy search functions suitable for diverse scenarios.

Adot uses a standardized model to integrate different SDKs. As a result, any application that integrates Adot can gain access to the integrated Web3 protocols.

This opens up a world of possibilities for developers, making Adot a versatile tool in the ever-evolving landscape of the Web3 era.

Enhanced User Experience Suitable for the Digital Era of Web3 and AI

Adot addresses the information overload and lack of personalization of traditional search engines, by integrating AI and NLP technologies to deliver a more tailored and efficient search experience.

AI and NLP Integration

Adot’s intelligent search engine sorts and organizes information, assisting users in making informed decisions.

This is made possible through sentiment analysis and smart tagger features, both powered by AI and NLP.

The sentiment analysis feature allows Adot to understand the emotional tone behind words, and provide results relevant to what the user searches for. For example, if a user is searching for tweets highlighting positive sentiment about the Tezos blockchain, Adot is fully capable of meeting this query.

The smart tagger feature assigns labels to the search inputs, making it easier to retrieve relevant results. Using NLP, human and machine-readable labels are assigned to content, while other AI technologies are used to annotate non-text content like images.

Rewarding Contributors with Ad Revenue

The Web3 ecosystem introduces opportunities for token-based incentives and user-generated content. Adot leverages this to create a community-driven platform, rewarding users for contributing to the search engine’s improvement. Each person’s contribution is recorded and rewarded appropriately, fostering a sense of ownership and loyalty among its user base.

Adot’s open-source data framework allows developers to catch and compose needed data for their own purposes. Data is open to all conducting Adot protocols to contribute and call. This not only enhances the search experience but also saves developers the time and resources they would otherwise spend on redundant work. By rewarding developers for their contributions, Adot encourages the development of a vibrant and innovative web industry.

By rewarding users for their contributions, Adot ensures that the value generated by the community is returned to the community. This creates a virtuous cycle where users are motivated to contribute more, leading to a richer and more diverse data ecosystem.

Adot in Action: Client Success Stories

Adot’s capabilities have already been put to the test by several clients, each with unique needs and requirements. Here are some of the success stories that highlight Adot’s versatility and effectiveness:

Firefly:

Firefly, a decentralized social application, leverages Adot’s data API to provide free search functionality to its users. This meets users’ active query needs for different types of on-chain and off-chain data, such as wallets, NFTs, tokens, and content from social media and content creation platforms. With Adot, Firefly users can easily access the information they need, enhancing their overall experience.

NFTScan:

NFTScan, an NFT aggregation platform, uses Adot to provide more asset-related data in different content formats, such as articles, social media posts, and comment content from both on-chain and off-chain sources. This allows NFTScan to free its users from cluttered and disorganized data, enabling them to obtain complete, comprehensive, and high-quality information, and make wiser investment decisions accordingly.

Weweave:

Weweave, a platform that allows users to store and access files on the Arweave network, benefits from Adot’s powerful full-chain data retrieval functions. Through the search box on WeWeave’s homepage search bar, users can not only browse their own uploaded data but also easily access any files and content stored on the Arweave network. Adot also provides filtering, tagging, and other functions for WeWeave users’ search results, making it easy for users to classify the data they need.

Meet The Team

Adot Team

Wei - Founder

With 17 years of research and work experience in the field of search engines and artificial intelligence, Wei is a seasoned technologist. He is a former Google search engine algorithm engineer, where he was involved in building Google’s core mobile search ecosystem. As a serial entrepreneur, Wei has led several well-known startups and provided search services for hundreds of millions of mobile devices.

Kiki - Product Manager

Kiki brings her expertise in product operation and data analysis to the team. With experience in the search engine and AI field, she has worked in leading technology companies domestically, specializing in product management.

Hammar - Marketing Advisor

Hammar’s cross-functional visibility and specialty span across Product, Analytics, Marketing, BD, Strategy & Operations. With an international working and education background that includes the USA, China, the UK, and Brazil, he brings multiple industry insights from Crypto, Healthcare, Online Media, Energy, Technology, Arts, Sports, and NGOs. Hammar also has a strong technical background in analytics, with proficiency in SQL, SAS, R, Python.

Joe - Marketing Manager

Joe is an experienced marketing, branding, and community operation professional. He has worked in many famous domestic advertising agencies, financial institutions, and Internet companies, and is familiar with new media and digital marketing.

In addition to these key members, Adot also boasts a robust Technical Team that includes Search Engineers, Algorithm Engineers, Blockchain Engineers, and more, all working together to revolutionize the way we search and interact with the web.

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