Your Key to Open Web Search
The Open Web Search Book is a comprehensive online resource for everything related to Open Web Search. Created and continuously updated by the Open Web Search community, it offers detailed guidance on the technical setup and data infrastructure of the Open Web Index (OWI), enabling users to easily start working with the Index.
Additionally, the book delves into the project’s history, outlines its goals, and shares the motivation behind its creation. Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or simply curious about open web technologies, this compendium provides community-driven knowledge to help you explore and leverage the OWI.
The authors of the book aim to:
- collect, describe and discuss relevant scientific discoveries, technologies and algorithms,
- develop application scenarios, ideas and search paradigm for improving future search and discovery,
- discuss and elaborate important societal, ethical and legal implications and constraints,
- develop buisness models that go beyond advertisment for sustaining the Web infrastructure, highlighting relevant projects, actives and events devoted to the topic of open Web search and its ecosystem.
The content is subject to change (the version history will be kept alive) as the book is a continuous perpetual beta version.
The book is intended to be open and welcomes contributors who want to advance today’s Web Search or who aim to comment on our ideas and activities.
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