Searsia
search federated
Presented at the ISOC NL New Year 2017

Web search?

1. Influences people ...

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• 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 ...

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• By Adam Zyglis. http://adamzyglis.com/

3. Is expensive ...

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• 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

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• 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