Djoerd Hiemstra (17)
Renaud @renchap Chaput from Mastodon is (online) in the house! Renaud discusses the #Fediscovery project: opt-in by server admins, opt-in by users, only indexing public data, does not receive personal data. #OSSYM24
"The gini coefficient of the distributiion of traffic on websites in Germany equals... 0.988 (1.0 would be all traffic to one site)"
Martin Andree at #OSSYM24
Aurelie Herbelot presents PeARS, a federated search engine: you can easily set up a private or public instance. #OSSYM24
Michael Hamann presents #WAISE: the Wiki AI Search Engine. #OSSYM24
https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/X-AI/WAISE/
Great talk by Alex de Vries on energy efficiency of search: the big culprit is AI. ChatGPT takes at least 10 times more energy than a "standard" (already quite wasteful) Google search. #OSSYM24
Noor Afshan Fathima presents the impressive #OpenWebSearch crawling infrastructure at #CERN. #OSSYM24
Gijs discussing selective search and document clustering. #OSSYM24
Richard Socher from https://you.com: You stopped calling itself a search engine, because unfortunately, search is not very "novel" anymore. #OSSYM24
To be presented at the Open Search Symposium #OSSYM24: An open source implementation of web clustering algorithms for selective search