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Open Search Foundation in the media

Süddeutsche Zeitung: “How chat GPT influences voters”

Open Search in the media

“We are paying with our data, our privacy, economic independence and democratic sovereignty" - Leopold Beer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung quotes OSF board member Stefan Voigt. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reports on the Open Search Foundation…

Spektrum.de: “The Dream of an Open Search Engine“

HPCwire: “People to Watch: Dieter Kranzlmüller”

Open Search Community, Open Search in the media, OpenWebSearch.eu

Agoratalk: Ethics in the digital space. A podcast discussion with osf board member Christine Plote

Open Search in the media

CERN Courier: “Towards an unbiased digital world”

Open Search Community, Open Search in the media

CERN Courier features the Open Search Foundation in an article about Open Web Search. Andreas Wagner – member of the CERN IT department – was interviewed on the EU funded OpenWebSearch.eu project, which aims to establish an OpenWebIndex…

Telepolis: “Those who defend the free Internet against the state and corporations”

Open Search in the media

Three years, five data centers, six universities, six third-party partners,...: These are just a few of the parameters for the EU project OpenWebSearch.eu, which was initiated in 2022 by the Open Search Foundation and 13 European partners with…

HIPEAC info magazine: “The web is critical infrastructure, and should be treated as such”

Open Search Community, Open Search in the media

„The web is critical infrastructure, and should be treated as such“ is the title of #HIPEAC Magazine #69, which contains an in-depth interview with OpenWebSearch.eu researchers …

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

Open Search in the media, OpenWebSearch.eu

"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”

Open Search in the media, OpenWebSearch.eu

"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…

Media Bulletins

Building a European Open Web Index – Open Calls launched to invite researchers, innovators and computing centres to join the quest for a new Internet Search in Europe | Media Release

Media Bulletins, Open Search Community, OpenWebSearch.eu, Pressemitteilungen

14. February 2024/by Team osf

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

Events, Media Bulletins, Open Search Community

4. September 2023/by Team osf

5th Symposium on Open Internet Search – #ossym23

Events, Media Bulletins

5. August 2023/by Team osf

#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

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