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While the project officially ended on 28 February 2026 with very positive results, the journey continues under the European Open Web Search initiative. But first things first… How it started and where we are at In September 2022 a consortium of 14 European organizations*, spread across 7 countries, have joined into the Horizon Europe funded […]
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. Within the OpenWebSearch.EU (OWS) project CERN plays a crucial role not only with regards to supercomputing infrastructure, but […]
A Slovenian team set out to build open-source tools that help small retailers go digital easily, by importing product descriptions from a spreadsheet into an online shop – with AI-enhanced descriptions and images, in just a few clicks For small to medium sized Brick-and-Mortar retailers, the move from physical shops to e-commerce is a long […]
A research team from Pisa and Glasgow proposes that AI language models should decide which web pages to download – and shows why this matters for the future of search Before a search engine can find anything, it must first build a collection of web pages to search through. This collection is assembled by a […]
The CIFFIL Service project shows that open web index standards can help small municipalities improve their search quality by accessing results from larger ones Search engines work best when they have a lot of data to learn from. The more documents in a collection, the better the system can distinguish between common words and genuinely […]
The next partner we are introducing is IT4Innovations National Supercomputing center. IT4Innovations is a university research institute of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, providing technical support and supercomputing power for the Open Web Index. The research team is guided and supported by the managing director of IT4Innovations, Vít Vondrák. The team includes Jan Martinovič, […]
The TILDE project builds a health search system that doesn’t just find answers – it checks them for bias, explains the underlying reasoning, and let’s users explore the evidence visually Search for a health question online and you will get plenty of results. But how much can you trust what you find? Are the top […]
A European research project is building a knowledge graph of public argumentation – and using it to make web search smarter When you search the web for a contentious topic – e.g. how AI should be regulated – you get a list of links ranked by relevance to your keywords. What you do not get […]
How a European research team built a browser-based fact-checking assistant powered by the #OpenWebIndex In an information environment where misleading claims can spread in real time, the ability to verify what you read online is a necessity. The VERITAS project, funded under the European OpenWebSearch.EU project and conducted by DEXAI, set out to build a practical tool for exactly this purpose: an AI-powered assistant that sits in your browser, answers your questions with sourced evidence, and draws its knowledge not from a proprietary index controlled by a single corporation, but from an open, European web search infrastructure. The Problem: […]
8th International Symposium on Open Search #ossym2026: Call for papers and demos is open until 1 March From 7 to 9 October 2026, the Open Search community will meet in Berlin for the 8th International Open Search Symposium. Until 1 March 2026, researchers, experts and practitioners can submit scientific papers, practical experience reports and software […]
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