Europe 2.0 – upgrading Europe’s internet search capacity” | Horizon Magazine

A recent Horizon Magazine article portraits the OpenWebSearch.eu project and lay out why building a European Open Web Index (OWI) opens up multiple new opportunities for future web search and data retrieval and how it contributes to promoting the diverse European linguistic and cultural landscapes.

“We want to empower communities so that they can easily filter and find those parts of the web that are relevant to them,” says project leader Michael Granitzer, Professor of Data Science at the University of Passau.

Additionally, privacy & data protection are an integral part of the project.
This not only serves science & research teams, but also offers new possibilities for the Pan-European economy.

A European OWI centres around European laws and values and serves as a solid soil for tech startups and enterprises that appreciate digital sovereignty and open data culture.

Read the full article on Horizon Magazine online here.