The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by Euractiv.
The European Parliament will this week replace Google with France’s Qwant – a European alternative search engine – as the default on its computers, according to an email seen by Euractiv.
I’m not sure which open index the EU is planning on using but I sure hope it’s not the Open Web Index because when I last had to use that it turns out that they forgot to embed the links that were contained in the texts they scanned
As for why that’s bad: hyperlinks are basically THE best way to figure out which content is relevant compared to other content. PageRank, the algorithm that got Google famous, is based on articles linking to each other to figure out which articles are the most valuable (it’s the articles that the most people link to, similar to how in science, the most important papers are usually the ones with the most citations). Open Web Index doesn’t have any of that information, it’s all just text, combined with the link where the crawler scanned that text