EU research power against Google’s dominance | ZDF heute

OpenWebSearch.eu was mentioned on the website of German newscast ZDF heute

Book author and journalist Stefan Mey wrote up a portrait on the OpenWebSearch.eu project, which has just entered its third year. The Horizon Europe funded project forms part of the Open Search Initiative initiated by Starnberg based Open Search Foundation. The organization has been alligning forces with 13 European research entities since September 2022 to attempt build a European Open Web Index.

In the article OSF chairman Dr. Stefan Voigt who also works as a researcher with consortium partner German Aerospace Center  is quoted as follows: “Our aim is to provide a directory of all content on the World Wide Web as a public service.”

The idea of a free and open web index should promote more diversity in the narrow search engine market. Currently roundabout 3.10 Billion URLs have been crawled, with the status being regularly updated here: https://openwebsearch.eu/the-project/status/

Read the ZDF heute article: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wissen/open-web-search-google-alternative-konkurrenz-monopol-100.html