Searsia
search federated
http://searsia.org
Web search?
1. Influences people ...
Robert Epstein and Ronald Robertson.
The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections
.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 112(33)
, 2014.
2. Invades privacy ...
By Adam Zyglis.
http://adamzyglis.com/
3. Is expensive ...
From:
http://google.com/datacenters
Our approach...
Federated search
Demo!
https://search.utwente.nl
Conclusion
Distribution of responsibilities:
More objective
— harder to manipulate or censor.
Queries via broker:
More private
— Search engines cannot track individuals.
No web crawling:
Cheaper
— easy to maintain.
People
Dolf Trieschnigg, Dong Nguyen, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ke Zhou, Thomas Demeester
(Almer Tigelaar, Rob Stortelder)
Check it out!
http://searsia.org
(documentation)
https://search.utwente.nl
(example deployment)
https://github.com/searsia
(source code)
Acknowledgments
Thanks
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