Show your face for #FreeWebSearch! Willi Tetzlaff, Ambassador for alternative #SearchEngine swisscows, warns about the deep, intimate information that major #SearchEngines collect about us while we search + calls for greater market diversity. #FWSD23 freewebsearch.org

Show your face for #FreeWebSearch! Lots of public discussion about the impact of #SocialMedia + AI on society + democracy, almost none about the enormous influence of #SearchEngines on information gathering…wonders @FrauPlote, board member of OSF #FWSD23 freewebsearch.org

Show your face for #FreeWebSearch! “An ecosystem of free and independent search engines helps ensure that our daily use of the web isn’t skewed to the benefit of a few global players.” Phil Höfer (@[email protected]), MetaGer Friday is #FreeWebSearchDay #FWSD23! freewebsearch.org/en/events/

🎉Happy international #FreeWebSearch Day! We asked people from different backgrounds what they find important about this #DayOfAction. Here are some of the quotes. The rest to be found on freewebsearch.org/en/people-and-… Join #FreeWebSearchDay #FWSD23 activities: freewebsearch.org/en/events/

"Inclusion in the digital spaces has become the main cause of exclusion." 👉 "I am because you are, and your are because I am" - These African principles of #Ubuntu got ousted by algorithms driven by rather invisible economic + political agendas, said Angella Ndaka at #ossym23

🌐 🔍 Partners in the OpenWebSearch.eu @[email protected] project, launched in Sept 2022, met at IT4I this week. It unites 14 European research & supercomp. centers for an open European #internetsearch infrastructure! #OpenWebSearch #EuropeanSearch #WebSearch

Websearch is more complicated + starts way earlier than most people think! See the overview of the #OpenWebSearch workflow from selection + query of web resources to the creation of the actual #WebIndex to Applications such as #SearchEngines and #LLMs Created with Open Search Foundation @[email protected]

What does a slice of chorizo have to do with open #websearch? Dan Rowden. Tim Smith from CERN shows the added value of an #OpenWebIndex for #internetsearch in his TED Talk "Navigating the Entangled Web" using examples from physics. Highly recommended! ⬇️ ted.com/talks/tim_smit…

🛎 Oops - we did it again! Two new third-party #OpenCalls address innovators & researchers + data/computing centres. 🗣️ Call2: openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdp… 🗣️ Call 3: openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdp… #OpenWebSearchCommunity #OpenCalls

⏱️The #wows24 Call for Papers & Software deadline was extended to 28 February. Lose no more time and hand in your ideas: opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/… #wows24 #callforpapers #callforsoftware #glasgow #ECIR #OpenWebSearch

Do you track data to better understand your chronic health condition? Do you want to be able to use your tracking data to answer health-related questions and get insights on how to improve/better manage your health? Read ahead (1/n)

Unhappy Leap Day! That’s right UN-happy Leap Day! You might be celebrating, but across the world, software developers bemoan the extra day. Time libraries help, but working with time still stinks! It’s a great reminder that real-world programming has irregular, sharp edges.

Productive and fun!

Next time Maik Fröbe .

Food for thought: Can we imagine a world where access to research data and information is siloed? How would science journalism flourish then? #worldpressfreedomday2024

INDEPENDENCE in web search: I = I don't depend on another service so don't experience their outages N D E P E N D E N C E