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📌 🗓️ Mark your calendar! 👉 Community Meet-up on 4 May
Join us next Monday for our regular #OpenWebSearch Community Meet-up. We will provide you with updates and discuss what you are working on in the community.
Date: 4 May
Time: 15:00-16:00 CEST
Location: Virtual BigBlueButton room
Please sign up via [email protected]See you around! 🙌
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Join our #CommunityMeetUp on 13 April
The OpenWebSearch.EU project has officially ended, but the community stays & the journey continues!Join our new #OpenWebSearch Community Meet-up format!
Combining the former Community Update & the Tech & Applications roundtables, we will meet every first Monday of the month. Get the latest on #OWS + share what you're working on!The April Community Meet-up happens 13 April, 15:00-16:00 CEST, via Big Blue Button
Sign-up now: [email protected] -
Join our #CommunityMeetUp on 13 April
The OpenWebSearch.EU project has officially ended, but the community stays & the journey continues!Join our new #OpenWebSearch Community Meet-up format!
Combining the former Community Update & the Tech & Applications roundtables, we will meet every first Monday of the month. Get the latest on #OWS + share what you're working on!The April Community Meet-up happens 13 April, 15:00-16:00 CEST, via Big Blue Button
Sign-up now: [email protected] -
Join our #CommunityMeetUp on 13 April
The OpenWebSearch.EU project has officially ended, but the community stays & the journey continues!Join our new #OpenWebSearch Community Meet-up format!
Combining the former Community Update & the Tech & Applications roundtables, we will meet every first Monday of the month. Get the latest on #OWS + share what you're working on!The April Community Meet-up happens 13 April, 15:00-16:00 CEST, via Big Blue Button
Sign-up now: [email protected] -
Join our #CommunityMeetUp on 13 April
The OpenWebSearch.EU project has officially ended, but the community stays & the journey continues!Join our new #OpenWebSearch Community Meet-up format!
Combining the former Community Update & the Tech & Applications roundtables, we will meet every first Monday of the month. Get the latest on #OWS + share what you're working on!The April Community Meet-up happens 13 April, 15:00-16:00 CEST, via Big Blue Button
Sign-up now: [email protected] -
Join our #CommunityMeetUp on 13 April
The OpenWebSearch.EU project has officially ended, but the community stays & the journey continues!Join our new #OpenWebSearch Community Meet-up format!
Combining the former Community Update & the Tech & Applications roundtables, we will meet every first Monday of the month. Get the latest on #OWS + share what you're working on!The April Community Meet-up happens 13 April, 15:00-16:00 CEST, via Big Blue Button
Sign-up now: [email protected] -
Our #ECIR2026 paper on "remote querying" Web indexes in Parquet files on S3 using #DuckDB Paper: doi.org/10.1007/978-... Want to try it yourself? Docs in the #openwebsearch book: openwebsearcheu-public.pages.it4i.eu/ows-the-book... Code: gitlab.science.ru.nl/informagus/r...
Open Web Indexes for Remote Qu... -
Djoerd's talk naturally led into the panel closing the IR for Good sessions today.
Moderator Maria Heuse and panelists Bhaskar Mitra, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Madeleine I. G. Daepp, and Djoerd Hiemstra; left to right in the photo attached.
Highlights include:
Bring #openwebsearch not just to EU but to the world
Stimulate critical thinking regarding AI.
Reflect on the implicit normative view (what is "good")?
Keep authoritarian frames out of our platform (avoid *autocratic capture*).
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Keynote by @djoerd about Web search as a public utility, and of course https://ows.eu
Note the #openwebsearch and #DuckDB stickers on the laptop 😉
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In meinem Stream beobachte ich einen Exodus; Weg von #BigTech - hin zu #OpenSource.
Auf Webseiten wie european-alternatives.eu gibt es einige Einträge zu alternativen Suchmaschinen. Leider nutzen die im Hintergrund ebenfalls Daten von BigTech.
#Openwebsearch.eu ist das Europäische Bestreben, einen unabhängigen Index aufzubauen.
#SUMA #EU #DigitaleSouveränität #google #unplugtrump
Zum Projekt: https://openwebsearch.eu/
Zum Crawler: https://openwebsearch.eu/owler/
Zum Verein: https://opensearchfoundation.org/de/ -
In meinem Stream beobachte ich einen Exodus; Weg von #BigTech - hin zu #OpenSource.
Auf Webseiten wie european-alternatives.eu gibt es einige Einträge zu alternativen Suchmaschinen. Leider nutzen die im Hintergrund ebenfalls Daten von BigTech.
#Openwebsearch.eu ist das Europäische Bestreben, einen unabhängigen Index aufzubauen.
#SUMA #EU #DigitaleSouveränität #google #unplugtrump
Zum Projekt: https://openwebsearch.eu/
Zum Crawler: https://openwebsearch.eu/owler/
Zum Verein: https://opensearchfoundation.org/de/ -
In meinem Stream beobachte ich einen Exodus; Weg von #BigTech - hin zu #OpenSource.
Auf Webseiten wie european-alternatives.eu gibt es einige Einträge zu alternativen Suchmaschinen. Leider nutzen die im Hintergrund ebenfalls Daten von BigTech.
#Openwebsearch.eu ist das Europäische Bestreben, einen unabhängigen Index aufzubauen.
#SUMA #EU #DigitaleSouveränität #google #unplugtrump
Zum Projekt: https://openwebsearch.eu/
Zum Crawler: https://openwebsearch.eu/owler/
Zum Verein: https://opensearchfoundation.org/de/ -
In meinem Stream beobachte ich einen Exodus; Weg von #BigTech - hin zu #OpenSource.
Auf Webseiten wie european-alternatives.eu gibt es einige Einträge zu alternativen Suchmaschinen. Leider nutzen die im Hintergrund ebenfalls Daten von BigTech.
#Openwebsearch.eu ist das Europäische Bestreben, einen unabhängigen Index aufzubauen.
#SUMA #EU #DigitaleSouveränität #google #unplugtrump
Zum Projekt: https://openwebsearch.eu/
Zum Crawler: https://openwebsearch.eu/owler/
Zum Verein: https://opensearchfoundation.org/de/ -
📝 The Open Web Search Partner interview series continues...
Our 14 Partners are sharing their project insights one week at a time.On the blog now is a recent interview with the team from Technische Universität Graz. Take a look here:
https://openwebsearch.eu/ows-eu-partner-in-focus-the-graz-university-of-technology/
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📍In eigener Sache! Wir brauchen Eure Untertützung, denn in 3 Monaten wird es eng. Im Februar 2026 endet unsere Hauptfinanzierung. Das Anschlussprojekt startet erst Ende 2026.
Damit wir unser Team halten können, den europäischen offenen Webindex weiter promoten können & um die #OpenWebSearch Initiative weiter zu koordinieren, benötigen wir jetzt Eure Hilfe!
👇 Über diesen Link könnt ihr mit Eurer Spende einen Impact machen:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/de/spenden/Gerne weitersagen!
Vielen Dank! 🙏 -
🗓️ #CommunityUpdate on 3 Nov
👉 Having launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter in Sep & being back from #ossym in Finland, we're ready to host our next Community Update Call!Join for updates re the #OpenWebSearch community + technical updates related to the OWI.
Afterwards, stick around for our Tech & Applications Meeting (16:00-17:00 CEST) where we will discuss more technical aspects of #OpenWebSearch.
3rd Nov, 15:00-15:45 CEST, Big Blue Button
Sign-up via email: [email protected] -
🗓️ #CommunityUpdate on 3 Nov
👉 Having launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter in Sep & being back from #ossym in Finland, we're ready to host our next Community Update Call!Join for updates re the #OpenWebSearch community + technical updates related to the OWI.
Afterwards, stick around for our Tech & Applications Meeting (16:00-17:00 CEST) where we will discuss more technical aspects of #OpenWebSearch.
3rd Nov, 15:00-15:45 CEST, Big Blue Button
Sign-up via email: [email protected] -
🗓️ #CommunityUpdate on 3 Nov
👉 Having launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter in Sep & being back from #ossym in Finland, we're ready to host our next Community Update Call!Join for updates re the #OpenWebSearch community + technical updates related to the OWI.
Afterwards, stick around for our Tech & Applications Meeting (16:00-17:00 CEST) where we will discuss more technical aspects of #OpenWebSearch.
3rd Nov, 15:00-15:45 CEST, Big Blue Button
Sign-up via email: [email protected] -
🗓️ #CommunityUpdate on 3 Nov
👉 Having launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter in Sep & being back from #ossym in Finland, we're ready to host our next Community Update Call!Join for updates re the #OpenWebSearch community + technical updates related to the OWI.
Afterwards, stick around for our Tech & Applications Meeting (16:00-17:00 CEST) where we will discuss more technical aspects of #OpenWebSearch.
3rd Nov, 15:00-15:45 CEST, Big Blue Button
Sign-up via email: [email protected] -
🗓️ #CommunityUpdate on 3 Nov
👉 Having launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter in Sep & being back from #ossym in Finland, we're ready to host our next Community Update Call!Join for updates re the #OpenWebSearch community + technical updates related to the OWI.
Afterwards, stick around for our Tech & Applications Meeting (16:00-17:00 CEST) where we will discuss more technical aspects of #OpenWebSearch.
3rd Nov, 15:00-15:45 CEST, Big Blue Button
Sign-up via email: [email protected] -
Lots of ideas being thrown around today for the future of the #openwebindex .
With the end of EU funding for this critical infrastructure we're meeting up to discuss how to carry on. -
🛎️ Grab your ticket and save your seat for #ossym25 and come join the #OpenWebSearch Community on site at CSC - IT Center for Science in Helsinki or online.
Registration is open now:
https://ssl.eventilla.com/ossym25The full agenda will be published by end of July via the following link:
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🚀 NGI Forum Day 2 is underway
With the same #enthusiasm!
Highlights from the opening talks:🗣️ @StefanVoigt
Let’s build a public, transparent web search infrastructure like Galileo or Copernicus.🗣️ @MichaelGranitzer
Search influences behaviour is crucial 20–80%. It's core to LLMs and AI.Let’s treat #OpenWebSearch as a base public service, built on EU HPC centres.
@NGICommons is part of this adventure
#NGIForum #OpenWebSearch #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #LLM #WebInfrastructure #Fediverse
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🚀 NGI Forum Day 2 is underway
With the same #enthusiasm!
Highlights from the opening talks:🗣️ @StefanVoigt
Let’s build a public, transparent web search infrastructure like Galileo or Copernicus.🗣️ @MichaelGranitzer
Search influences behaviour is crucial 20–80%. It's core to LLMs and AI.Let’s treat #OpenWebSearch as a base public service, built on EU HPC centres.
@NGICommons is part of this adventure
#NGIForum #OpenWebSearch #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #LLM #WebInfrastructure #Fediverse
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🚀 NGI Forum Day 2 is underway
With the same #enthusiasm!
Highlights from the opening talks:🗣️ @StefanVoigt
Let’s build a public, transparent web search infrastructure like Galileo or Copernicus.🗣️ @MichaelGranitzer
Search influences behaviour is crucial 20–80%. It's core to LLMs and AI.Let’s treat #OpenWebSearch as a base public service, built on EU HPC centres.
@NGICommons is part of this adventure
#NGIForum #OpenWebSearch #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #LLM #WebInfrastructure #Fediverse
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🚀 NGI Forum Day 2 is underway
With the same #enthusiasm!
Highlights from the opening talks:🗣️ @StefanVoigt
Let’s build a public, transparent web search infrastructure like Galileo or Copernicus.🗣️ @MichaelGranitzer
Search influences behaviour is crucial 20–80%. It's core to LLMs and AI.Let’s treat #OpenWebSearch as a base public service, built on EU HPC centres.
@NGICommons is part of this adventure
#NGIForum #OpenWebSearch #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #LLM #WebInfrastructure #Fediverse
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🚀 NGI Forum Day 2 is underway
With the same #enthusiasm!
Highlights from the opening talks:🗣️ @StefanVoigt
Let’s build a public, transparent web search infrastructure like Galileo or Copernicus.🗣️ @MichaelGranitzer
Search influences behaviour is crucial 20–80%. It's core to LLMs and AI.Let’s treat #OpenWebSearch as a base public service, built on EU HPC centres.
@NGICommons is part of this adventure
#NGIForum #OpenWebSearch #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #LLM #WebInfrastructure #Fediverse
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Greetings from Brussels! 👋
At NGI Forum 2025 #OWSome things are happening. Today's morning sessions are fully devoted to topics surrounding #OpenWebSearch and #DigitalWebSovereignty in Europe.
Check out the full agenda: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/
Thank you @EC_NGI for the opportunity to further disseminate our huge vision to an audience of innovators, decision makers and potential partners from across Europe. 🙌
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🔍 Neues EU-Projekt.. will Websuche offener & ethischer machen: Weniger Abhängigkeit von großen Plattformen, mehr Transparenz & Datenschutz. #OpenWebSearch #EthicalAI #CERN #WWW
👉 https://home.cern/news/news/computing/european-project-make-web-search-more-open-and-ethical -
Kennt sich hier irgendjemand mit OpenWebSearch (dem europäischen Web-Suchindex) aus?
Es würde mich interessieren, wie weit dieses Projekt gediehen ist.
Die Ideen und Ziele sind auf openwebsearch.eu ja gut dokumentiert, aber den aktuellen Stand konnte ich nicht rausfinden.
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🚅 Time to take the #OWI to Brussels!
We are excited to co-organize the morning sessions at this year's #NGIForum on 20 June.Our project leader @grani will speak on the freshly launched #OWI, both looking back and forward.
Following his keynote, there will be exciting policy statements from MEPs Alexandra Geese & Lina Gálvez plus two panel discussions surrounding #WebSovereignty and the future of #OpenWebSearch.
Join NGI Forum in Brussels or online.
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(2/2) Fortunately, an alternative is in the works. #CERN is a member of the #OpenWebSearch consortium, which is building a new web index based on #European values of #fairness and #privacy. The Open Web Index project aims to build a public index that offers an alternative to existing indexes held by companies like #Microsoft and #Google.
The system is crawling and indexing about 9 million URLs per hour, aiming to index 30–50% of the text-based web by the end of 2025.
https://home.cern/news/news/computing/european-project-make-web-search-more-open-and-ethical
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Iniziativa davvero interessante...
L'Europa sfida Google con l'Open Web Index.
Un indice aperto e pubblico per sviluppare motori di ricerca liberi dalle logiche pubblicitarie e dall'inquinamento da IA.
Leggi l'articolo originale su ZEUS News: https://www.zeusnews.it/n.php?c=31021
Progetto OpenWebIndex:
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The EU-funded OpenWebSearch project aims to launch a public, open search API by June as an alternative to US-dominated engines like Google & Bing.
In development for over two years, it will provide access to a petabyte of open web data under research or commercial licenses.
Motivated by concerns over AI-driven quality decline and industry consolidation, the team seeks to deliver useful results without heavy corporate control.
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Search engines are getting worse, so OpenWebSearch funded by the European Union want to fix it https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/search-engines-are-getting-worse-so-openwebsearch-funded-by-the-european-union-want-to-fix-it/
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Starting to see (and getting a bit excited about) some components of openwebsearch.eu, and I was wondering if the EU will finally get its own Common Crawl, like dataset (commoncrawl.org).
It seems the crawling results aren't publicly accessible yet, and there's already some discussion about GDPR implications.
At this pace, we're still far from being able to compete with US-scale open data efforts 🤦♂️
#europe #commoncrawl #openwebsearch🔗 https://pipeline.shared-search.eu/
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💻 🗓️ Sign-up for this year's Next Generation Internet Forum in Brussels! Happening on 19 + 20 June.
We are excited to contribute with some special sessions and talks on #OpenWebSearch.
Register here: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/
Follow @EC_NGI for updates!
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Open web index #OWI update:
4 billion URLs crawled
185 different languages
28 million Hosts
750 TB crawled
1 TB crawled per day
147 WARC Datasets
17.5 TB size of Open Web Index
28.8 TB size of WARC datasets
346 public datasets -
🗣️ Call for Papers and Demos!
Haven't submitted your papers or demos for the 7th International Open Search Symposium #ossym25 yet?
Good news is, you can still go for it! We have extended the deadline until 17 March! 👐#ossym25 offers a space for discussing interdisciplinary aspects of #OpenWebSearch. We specifically welcome technical, ethical, legal, educational and economic suggestions.
Find all details:
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@MetaGer @MetaGer und dann kommt da noch hinzu: typisch Europa, anstatt dass sich die kleinen, die es gibt, zusammentun und gemeinsame Sache machen, will jeder sein eigenes Ding drehen. Doch gerade jetzt könnten sich #qwant, #ecosia, #metager, #openwebsearch, #mojeek zusammen für einen eigenen europäischen Index stark machen. Da wäre wohl mehr gewonnen.
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Ein europäischer Zusammenschluss fordert Google heraus: Ein freier Index soll endlich für Vielfalt auf dem Suchmarkt sorgen. Ein Verein in Bayern spielt dabei eine Schlüsselrolle. #openwebsearch #openweb
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wissen/open-web-search-google-alternative-konkurrenz-monopol-100.html
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🤩 The time has come - we are kicking off our new #webinar series next week!
As part of our December #CommunityUpdate we invite you to join the webinar "Hands-on utilization of the Open Web Crawler – OWI onboarding" with Michael Dinzinger and Saber Zerhoudi – both from University of Passau.
When: 2nd December, 15:00-16:15 CET
Where: Online via Big Blue Button
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🤩 The time has come - we are kicking off our new #webinar series next week!
As part of our December #CommunityUpdate we invite you to join the webinar "Hands-on utilization of the Open Web Crawler – OWI onboarding" with Michael Dinzinger and Saber Zerhoudi – both from University of Passau.
When: 2nd December, 15:00-16:15 CET
Where: Online via Big Blue Button
Register here: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates/ -
🤩 The time has come - we are kicking off our new #webinar series next week!
As part of our December #CommunityUpdate we invite you to join the webinar "Hands-on utilization of the Open Web Crawler – OWI onboarding" with Michael Dinzinger and Saber Zerhoudi – both from University of Passau.
When: 2nd December, 15:00-16:15 CET
Where: Online via Big Blue Button
Register here: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates/ -
🤩 The time has come - we are kicking off our new #webinar series next week!
As part of our December #CommunityUpdate we invite you to join the webinar "Hands-on utilization of the Open Web Crawler – OWI onboarding" with Michael Dinzinger and Saber Zerhoudi – both from University of Passau.
When: 2nd December, 15:00-16:15 CET
Where: Online via Big Blue Button
Register here: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates/ -
Do follow @openwebsearcheu for the #OpenWebSearch project. https://ows.eu
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22 papers from 68 authors – #ossym24 offered a broad spectrum of scientific work on on the topics of #internetsearch and #openwebsearch.
Vol. 6 of the International Open Search Symposium proceedings summarises the research results that were presented at the @LRZ_DE in Munich.
👉 Download the issue for free: https://e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/OSSYM
🤩 We already look forward to the next year's conference – the #ossym25, taking place from 8 - 10 October 2025 at CSC - IT Center for Science.
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22 papers from 68 authors – #ossym24 offered a broad spectrum of scientific work on on the topics of #internetsearch and #openwebsearch.
Vol. 6 of the International Open Search Symposium proceedings summarises the research results that were presented at the @LRZ_DE in Munich.
👉 Download the issue for free: https://e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/OSSYM
🤩 We already look forward to the next year's conference – the #ossym25, taking place from 8 - 10 October 2025 at CSC - IT Center for Science.
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22 papers from 68 authors – #ossym24 offered a broad spectrum of scientific work on on the topics of #internetsearch and #openwebsearch.
Vol. 6 of the International Open Search Symposium proceedings summarises the research results that were presented at the @LRZ_DE in Munich.
👉 Download the issue for free: https://e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/OSSYM
🤩 We already look forward to the next year's conference – the #ossym25, taking place from 8 - 10 October 2025 at CSC - IT Center for Science.
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22 papers from 68 authors – #ossym24 offered a broad spectrum of scientific work on on the topics of #internetsearch and #openwebsearch.
Vol. 6 of the International Open Search Symposium proceedings summarises the research results that were presented at the @LRZ_DE in Munich.
👉 Download the issue for free: https://e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/OSSYM
🤩 We already look forward to the next year's conference – the #ossym25, taking place from 8 - 10 October 2025 at CSC - IT Center for Science.