On: EU Open Web Search project kicked off

[denton-scratch]

> And then everyone can build search engines on top of that.

That bit troubles me. If the index is maintained by a government agency, and every search engine is using the same index, then that's a massive censorship avenue. I wonder how "open" Open Web Index is going to be.

[zaarn → denton-scratch]

If the index is censored, nothing stops you from adding to the index yourself.

The vast majority of the net is, after all, now indexed, so you can run your own indexer to cover whatever they didn't cover.