Merry Christmas to all our users but before the year ends we want to make one of the last important announcements. A few months ago we announced an alliance to include Bing as a search engine within Midori to give users search engine options, however at that time we are launching our search engine AstianGO, AstianGO is a search engine that is currently offline due to the work we are doing. we are carrying out in it and in all your architecture, today we announce a new alliance with Bing.

AstianGO was born from the need to provide another level of privacy to our users, in a short time it monopolized and saturated our servers, which caused us to have to launch an update that lasted approximately 2 months before temporarily stopping the service due to high user traffic. , people searching for, and using AstianGO. We tried to talk to Google and we believe that we are still too small to get their attention and thus legally allow us to use their search results, but Bing, Bing was different, Bing told us YES!

But what does this alliance consist of?

AstianGO is and will be owned by Astian, Inc. Astian will be responsible for its maintenance and support, and if AstianGO were to use and display search results through the Bing API, something that search engines such as StartPage, Qwant, DuckDuckGO, Ecosia already do, but There is a big difference between AstianGO and the previously mentioned search engines, freedom, privacy.

Freedom

Many of the search engines expressly say that they promote and respect the privacy of users but they close the code, there is no freedom, there is a feeling of freedom. AstianGO will be different, AstianGO will release the source code and integrate the Midori community and its own community, and AstianGO can be implemented by other organizations since it will be released under AGPL, to guarantee product feedback.

Privacy

The previous search engines do an excellent job for privacy and are an excellent alternative to Google, but they close the code and only release elements external to the search engine, it is not really known what happens to the data. AstianGO will release the entire code to be inspected by all users, so that other users can collaborate and contribute with it.

AstianGO will not only release the source to be inspected and receive contributions from people and companies but will not track the user, will not profile users, will not save user searches (if desired) see Astian Ecosystem. but also AstianGO will NOT transmit information to Bing, Microsoft, AstianGO will NOT sell the information to Bing, Microsoft, AstianGO will clean the URLs to bring the results without advertising, without tracking, without trackers and protecting users’ metadata, what users see Only they see the results.

AstianGO is part of the Astian Ecosystem, an ecosystem that links the Midori Browser, MidoriDNS, MidoriVPN, Astian Cloud and the Astian application suite. By creating an account in AstianGO the user will have access to all their information synchronized across all services and devices. with the privacy and security of encryption and under the trust and premise of transparency and total privacy.

Phase 1 of the development of AstianGO: The development of AstianGO will be slowed down and the following features will be deployed in this first instance:

• Traditional web searches.
• Image searches.
• Video searches.

After consolidating and perfecting the searches in the traditional search, images and video sections, we will move on to the integration of new ones such as:

• News.
• Flight search.
• Maps.
• Translate

Some of these features will be natively integrated into the Midori browser and other services.

After the development of the first two phases, the integration phase will be carried out:

• MidoriAI Artificial Intelligence Assistant.
• Integration with the Midori browser on desktop and mobile.
• Integration with login with other Astian Ecosystem services.
• Integration and linking of AstianGO with other browsers.