Manifesto
Our search engine, IBOU, aims to satisfy humanity’s appetite for knowledge. We publicly declare our commitment and dedication to an open, public, and sustainable internet. We believe that those who create, maintain, and share online content contribute to the collective richness of human knowledge and deserve to be recognized and rewarded, particularly through the contribution of qualified, curious, and respectful visitors.
Our commitments
Respecting Website Publishers
We will crawl the web with respect for infrastructures, adhering to the instructions specified in robots.txt files, and at speeds adapted to avoid harming servers. If a site wishes to be crawled differently, we will listen to its needs.
Serving Human Curiosity
We believe in diversity and aim to prioritize discovery over the satisfaction of popularity by presenting varied content to users. We do not refuse personalization but we do not want to make it an absolute priority.
Promoting an Open Internet
We believe that a search engine has a duty to help users discover publicly accessible content while protecting the wishes of publishers to share it under conditions they control.
Recognizing and Valuing Contributions
We commit to making creators, journalists, bloggers, academics, photographers, developers and all those who publish quality content, visible, so that they benefit from the audience their work deserves.
Prioritizing Transparency
Our methods of crawling, indexing, and presenting results will be the subject of sincere and accessible information, so that users understand why we present certain results to them, and so that creators understand how their content is used.
Working for a Sustainable Public Internet
We want to encourage an ecosystem in which content is not locked behind opaque walls, but where creators remain masters of their choices while being accessible to as many people as possible.
Contributing to a Lean Public Internet
We aspire to constructive collaboration with hosting platforms to reduce bandwidth usage and computation time. Our goal is to always use the minimum resources to obtain data, including advocating for content that is more accessible to everyone.
IBOU is not just a search engine. It is a promise of respect, transparency, and contribution to a web where everyone is free to learn, share, and grow, without sacrificing their principles or their infrastructures.
We want an internet that remains public.
We want an internet that remains open.
We want an internet that respects those who bring it to life.
IBOU is committed to moving forward with you in this direction.