Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off
by arjenpdevries on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:27AM
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The project is starting so not all your questions are answerable today, but, we definitly will produce an open web index, already by the end of the first year, with improvements for years two and three.
We further deliver components to make search engines on top of this index. The project vision is that there will be many different search engines, not just 4 worldwide. Hoping to lead the way!
> the researchers will develop the core of a European Open Web Index (OWI) as a basis for a new Internet Search in Europe.
That sounds as if building an index is at least within scope. But isn't the design of the index one of the key differentiators between different search engines? Perhaps the OWI will just produce tools for building transparent, privacy-preserving search engines, rather than crawling the web itself. It's not clear (to me) from reading the site.