Open Console — The Bigger Picture

The first generation of Open Console focussed on contact between website owners and Search Engines to improve the quality of indexing. But that was just the first step; the first indication what the infrastructure can be used for. There are potentially many more resources with data about websites which will get a place as well.

Global design

Open Console is collecting information about websites. Every party (producer) who has information which might useful for other parties (consumer) can publish this into the open infrastructure offered by Open Console.

We hope not to confuse you: there is a human interface to the collected information, provided to website owners, which is called "Open Console"; the infrastructure itself with application interfaces has the same name. The whole system collects what everyone wants to tell about a certain website, and also organizes the presentation of that data to the website owners.

Open Console does not care who is publishing what: it is to the consumer to judge and interpret the data. It is all about exchanging knowledge about websites and domains in the widest interpretation.

Publications

Producers of information upload publications per website. Potential publications include:

  • helping search engines to crawl and index;
  • sharing knowledge about black-listed domains for email;
  • public efforts to rate the quality of sites or to label them;
  • copyright holders reporting perceived violations
  • reporting phishing sites to the police in the jurisdiction of the website
  • sharing knowledge about sexual content on websites, for child filters; and
  • flagging hate speech webpages, mis-information, political content, SEO spam-farms, or out-dated information.