Organization:Open Search Foundation

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Short description: European digital rights nonprofit
Not to be confused with OpenSearch (software).

The Open Search Foundation (OSF) is a European nonprofit organization promoting internet freedom.

In 2019, the Open Search Foundation published a report advocating for open search infrastructure.[1] In 2020, the newly-formed group[2] was advocating for the creation of a common index to underpin European search engines.[3] OSF became a lead organizer of the Open Web Index, an open-sourced search index designed to allow for a nonprofit alternative to the dominant indexes, giving users more choice and agency in searching the web for information.[4][5][6] The foundation has organized sessions about the values that should be part of the web index[7] as well as a working group to investigate the legal challenges that would need to be addressed.[8]

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References

  1. ↑ Lewandowski, Dirk (2023), "The Future of Search" (in en), Understanding Search Engines (Springer International Publishing): pp. 275–282, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22789-9_16, ISBN 978-3-031-22788-2, https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-22789-9_16, retrieved 2026-05-15 
  2. ↑ Mager, Astrid (January 2023). "European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects" (in en). Big Data & Society 10 (1). doi:10.1177/20539517231163173. ISSN 2053-9517. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231163173. 
  3. ↑ Wakabayashi, Daisuke (2020-12-14). "Google Dominates Thanks to an Unrivaled View of the Web" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/how-google-dominates.html. "In Europe, a group called the Open Search Foundation has proposed a plan to create a common internet index that can underpin many European search engines. It’s essential to have a diversity of options for search results, said Stefan Voigt, the group’s chairman and founder, because it is not good for only a handful of companies to determine what links people are shown and not shown." 
  4. ↑ "Title: 42 months in the making: OpenWebSearch.EU project end results look promising!" (in en-GB). 2026-04-04. https://openwebsearch.eu/title-42-months-in-the-making-openwebsearch-eu-project-end-results-look-promising/. 
  5. ↑ Rice, Kezia (2026-02-02). "Fighting the Search Monopoly With an Open Source Index: An Interview With Michael Granitzer From OpenWebSearch" (in en-US). https://en.reset.org/fighting-the-search-monopoly-with-an-open-source-index-an-interview-with-michael-granitzer-from-openwebsearch/. 
  6. ↑ Soares, Joana (2025-11-17). "Google owns the queries, but Europe wants its search infrastructure back" (in en-US). https://euperspectives.eu/2025/11/is-open-search-the-path-to-european-digital-sovereignity/. 
  7. ↑ Ridgway, Renée (2025). "Designing digital sovereignty—an open federated EU web index for search". Communication +1 (journal) 11 (2). doi:10.7275/CPO.2245. ISSN 2380-6109. https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/article/id/2245/. 
  8. ↑ Erenli, Kai; Geminn, Christian; Pfeiffer, Leon (June 2021). "Legal challenges of an open web index" (in en). International Cybersecurity Law Review 2 (1): 183–194. doi:10.1365/s43439-021-00017-8. ISSN 2662-9720. https://link.springer.com/10.1365/s43439-021-00017-8. 



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