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Europe prepares trial for Open Web Index to reduce reliance on Google and Bing (openwebsearch.eu)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/Technology@programming.dev

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After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI).

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[–] sip@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

so.. how do I search with it?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From what I can gather (it's a government /academic computing project so it has to be as clear as mud), you can't. They're only making the index, which would allow other people to build a search engine using it.

Also while it's "open", they're clearly intending to charge for commercial use:

Understand the differences between research and commercial licenses

[–] xtools@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

not very open then...

[–] sip@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

probably open to anyone, not open source.

I envisioned an open thing where I could contribute by clustering my PC when idle to help scrape.

edit: but the search is public.