The OpenWebSearch.EU project aims to strengthen Europe's digital independence. With the launch of the Open Web Index (OWI), it has reached a milestone for open internet search.

Search engines determine what information we find – and what we don’t. Those who control the infrastructure of web search influence public debates, democratic processes and economic developments. Currently, this power lies with a few US companies.

The EU project OpenWebSearch.EU, coordinated by the University of Passau, has set itself the ambitious goal of changing this. A key milestone has now been reached: the European research team has launched the Open Web Index (OWI) – an open, European web index that serves as the basis for alternative search technologies.

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    • MTK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      If you mean locally, that would be hard.

      These indexes are huge and most home labs don’t have the hardware to actually search through such an index.

      But not locally, probably just a matter of time until either an already supported search engine adds it, or searxng adds it as a new search engine.