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title: Ison Search
description: Ison Search — the curated, privacy-first Indonesian search engine at search.isonai.com, and the grounding foundation for IsonAI's answers.
last_verified: 2026-07-17
---

# Ison Search

**Ison Search** ([search.isonai.com](https://search.isonai.com)) is a curated Indonesian search engine. It stands on its own as a public search engine, and also serves as a [grounding](/en/search/) source for the IsonAI assistant on Indonesian topics.

## What sets it apart

- **Indonesian content focus** with **credibility tiering**: government sites, trusted media, encyclopedias, and academic sources are prioritized above the general web.
- **Combined search** — keyword and meaning (semantic) — so it understands Indonesian synonyms and typos.
- **Spam filtering** and continuous quality curation.
- **Privacy-first**: no user tracking, no ads or tracking pixels; favicons are served self-hosted; query logs are stored anonymously with automatic deletion.

## Features on the results page

- **Knowledge panel** for recognized entities.
- **Real-time currency exchange rates**.
- **Concise AI-synthesized answers** with source quotations.

## Scale

Ison Search indexes **millions of curated Indonesian web pages**, with an emphasis on trusted sources and content freshness. The service is in **public alpha** and still under active development.

## Relationship with IsonAI chat

When you ask about Indonesian topics in chat, IsonAI can refer to the Ison Search index, which prioritizes authoritative local sources — making answers more accurate and cited to the right sources. Global search is still used alongside it for international topics.

## For site owners

The Ison Search crawler identifies itself with a clear user-agent and respects robots rules. Webmaster information is available at [search.isonai.com/bot](https://search.isonai.com/bot).

## Limits

- Coverage is focused on the Indonesian web; foreign-language queries on non-Indonesian topics are a better fit for global engines — inside chat, IsonAI combines both automatically.
- As a still-growing service, coverage of specific domains keeps expanding.

## Related

- [Search & grounding](/en/search/)
- [The EPITHRE. ecosystem](/en/epithre/)