The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an Open Web Index
arXiv:1903.03846v113 citations
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This addresses the problem of centralized control in web search for developers and users, though it is an incremental step in web infrastructure.
The authors propose building an open index of the Web to separate search engine infrastructure from services, aiming to enable diverse search engines and services on a public infrastructure accessible to all.
A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine - the index - from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data on top of a public infrastructure open to everyone.