Search is the backbone of the digital economy, but it is controlled by a few giants. In order to achieve free, unbiased and transparent access to information, 14 research and computing centers in 7 EU countries have launched the Open Web Search project to build an open infrastructure for EU Web search. Over the next three years, researchers will develop the core index, the Open Web Index (OWI). The indexing will be separate from the search engine, and the expensive process of creating an index can be done on a large cluster, while the search engine can do it locally. Through the Open-Web-Search Engine Hub, anyone can share their search engine specifications and precomputed regularly updated indexes. The ultimate goal is to create a human-centric search without privacy concerns.
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