April 2nd at ECIR 2026 in Delft:

3rd International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2026

https://opensearchfoundation.org/events-osf/wows2026/

With a Web Search data challenge based on OWS-Curlie-2025:

The Open Web Search Curlie 2025 Test Collection, details at the OWI corpora dashboard:

https://dashboard.ows.eu/corpora/b510baa6-ebd2-11f0-8c43-02a47ca5d9fd

Do you think you know how to best rank Web search results? Show us!!

And, you *can* quote me on that.

📣 Call for papers & participation

One month left to hand in your works for the 3rd international Workshop on Open Web Search #wows2026

📍Happening from 29 March-2 April 2026 as a side event of ECIR2026.

👉 The workshop aims to promote & discuss ideas + approaches to open up the web search ecosystem so that small research groups + young startups can leverage the web to foster an open & diverse search market.

All details:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/events-osf/wows2026/