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Open Search Foundation in the media

c’t: “Basis for a thousand search engines – The EU wants to build a public web index by 2025”.

"Does it always have to be Google or Bing? With the OpenWebSearch project, the EU wants to protect its sovereignty on the Internet. The goal is a freely accessible web directory that feeds diverse search engines and language models and should…

Süddeutsche Zeitung: “A search engine for Europe”

"Google dominates internet search, now an EU project is trying to build an alternative with 'European values'. Can it succeed?" - The SZ reported on our EU project OpenWebSearch.eu in the business section. Mirjam Hauck spoke with Michael Granitzer…

California18: “Missing link: An open and free web index to regain digital diversity”

Open Search in the media

“With a market share of over 90 percent, Google is regularly the number one search engine in Europe. Since 2004, “googling” has been officially listed as a verb in the dictionary and stands for searching or researching on the Internet…

Human Facts: Realizing equal access to digital markets

Open Search in the media, Open Search Updates

Shania Ender from Human Facts introduces the Open Search Foundation and its goals and explains why we all should leave our own comfort zone in order to give smaller search engines a chance - too, "even if that means that our search no longer…

New York Times: Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web

Open Search in the media, What's the Problem?

"In Europe, a group called the Open Search Foundation has proposed a plan to create a common internet index that can underpin many European search engines."

Dragotin’s Blog: “It is a very good sign to have the topic of internet search in the news.” -Copy

Open Search in the media

Eine ausführliche Analyse über die Ziele und Organisation der Open Search Foundation und Kommentare zum Whitepaper finden sich auf Dragotin's Blog. Er endet mit einem sicherlich zutreffenden Ausblick: "Building a lasting, productive and well…

Media Bulletins

#FreeWebSearch Day: A day for freedom of information and democracy

Events, Media Bulletins, Open Search Community

4. September 2023/by Christine Plote

#ossym23: Call for papers is open until 31st May

Media Bulletins, Open Search Community, Open Search Initiative

12. May 2023/by Open Search Foundation

Third-Party Call #1: Media Release

Media Bulletins

1. March 2023/by Open Search Foundation

OpenWebSearch.eu officially kicked-off in Berlin

Europe, Initiatives and Problem Solving, Media Bulletins, Open Search Initiative

23. September 2022/by Open Search Foundation

Promoting Europe’s independence in web search: The Open Search Foundation joins forces with 13 other European research centres to form the EU project openwebsearch.eu

Europe, Media Bulletins, Open Search Initiative, Open Search Updates, OpenWebSearch.eu

29. July 2022/by Open Search Foundation

For a value-oriented internet search in Europe: Start of a new digitisation project

Media Bulletins, Open Search Updates

14. September 2021/by Open Search Foundation

Open Search Foundation e.V.

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