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#ossym23: Call for papers is open until 31st May In October 2023, the Open Search community will gather at CERN in Geneva for its autumn meeting. Papers on research and best practice projects can be submitted until the end of May 2023. For the fifth time, #ossym will provide a forum to discuss and further […]
A trustworthy search that protects the personal data of its users and integrates European laws: That is the goal of OpenWebSearch.EU. The plan also includes bringing external research groups and companies on board. To this end, a total of three so-called third-party calls are planned. The first public call ends on 28 April. What is […]
“Does it always have to be Google or Bing? With the OpenWebSearch project, the EU wants to protect its sovereignty on the Internet. The goal is a freely accessible web directory that feeds diverse search engines and language models and should trigger a boom in new web services.” In the German IT and tech magazine […]
“In Europe, more plans are afoot to create a local web search engine that would weaken the dominant Google. In September, the OpenWebSearch project was set in motion, involving fourteen European research and supercomputing centres. Among them is the Czech national supercomputing centre IT4Innovations in Ostrava. However, Germany holds the majority role in the project.” […]
OI Canadian | 21 September 2022 “The OpenWebSearch.EU project is working on a European alternative to Google in the field of online search To foster an open and human-centric search engine market” Read the full article at OI Canadian: https://oicanadian.com/the-openwebsearch-eu-project-is-working-on-a-european-alternative-to-google-in-the-field-of-online-search-to-foster-an-open-and-human-centric-search-engine-market/
OpenWebSearch.EU has kicked-off with a consortium meeting in Berlin. 46 participants got together in a hybrid meeting format to exchange ideas and make plans for the successful execution of the project. The meeting was hosted by DLR-PT in a new building in Berlin-Südkreuz. The opening session was kicked off by greetings from Dieter Kranzmüller (BADW-LRZ), […]
Tiroler Tageszeitung | 28 August 2022 “The European answer to Google and Co. should be more open and at the same time better protect privacy. Austrian researchers are also involved. Google, Microsoft Bing, Baidu, Yandex – the search for information on the internet is dominated by only a few private providers. With the support of […]
Niederösterreichische Nachrichten | 24 August 2022 “Google, Microsoft Bing, Baidu,Yandex – the search for information on the internet is dominated by only a few private providers. With the support of the EU’s Horizon Europe funding programme, a European alternative to the market-dominating providers is to be developed. 14 research and computing centres in Europe are […]
Article on AlphaGalileo (paywall): https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/224269?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/224269
Kronenzeitung | 24 August 2022 “Google, Microsoft Bing, Baidu, Yandex – the search for information on the internet is dominated by a few private providers. Google in particular has a near-monopoly with more than 87 per cent market share on smartphones. With the support of the EU’s Horizon Europe funding programme, a European alternative to […]
Promoting Europe's Independence
in Web Search
For the OpenWebSearch.EU initiative, 14 European Research Centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. With the EU project the initiative will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.
Funded by the
European Union
The project OpenWebSearch.EU has received funding from the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070014.
