🚀 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
@ngi
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. 🙌
Promover la independencia de Europa en la búsqueda web. #OpenWebSearch (https://openwebsearch.eu/) acaba de lanzar un piloto para una nueva infraestructura europea abierta para la búsqueda en internet, que tiene como objetivo hacer la búsqueda web en Europa más transparente, sin sesgos comerciales y proporcionar un acceso libre, abierto e imparcial a la información.
Hay noticias que te alegran el día 😃
🔍 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.
(Vielleicht war ich auch zu doof bei meiner kurzen Recherche.)
🚅 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.
Register here: https://ti.to/ngi/ngi-forum-2025
(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
@sco_tty The #EU is putting money in #OpenWebSearch but it takes time to develop it: https://openwebsearch.eu/
They are also investing in #openSource solutions: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/eu-oss-catalogue
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:
https://openwebsearch.eu
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.
Search engines are getting worse, so OpenWebSearch funded by the European Union want to fix it
#OpenWebSearch #EU
Search engines are getting wor...
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/
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/
🔗 https://pipeline.shared-search.eu/explain/license.html
💻 🗓️ 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!
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
MOSAIC search interface to OpenWebSearch:
https://mosaic.ows.eu/service/webinterface/
To read more on howMOSAIC uses index fractions, read "Enriching science search with the open search framework MOSAIC." Index partitions are small or medium sized indices containing web documents related to a certain topic or for a particular purpose, such as geo-coordinates.
For my purposes, I find utilities like LitSift more useful for post-processing on the 1st query pass.
🗣️ 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:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/ossym25/
@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.
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
🤩 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/
