June Event Announcement: The Open Web Index goes public! - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
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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). From June onward, commercial and scientific development teams of any size as well as interested individuals are welcome to access and make use of […]

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).

  • FizzyOrangeEnglish
    4·
    2 天前

    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

      • sipEnglish
        1·
        1 天前

        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.