EU to Develop Search Engine

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 16, 2006 @07:04AM from the searching-for-answers dept.

William Robinson writes "Digital Media is reporting that French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine called "Quaero" to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google. From the article: 'Those involved in the Quaero project, including Thomson, France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, have said that it will be much more than a typical search engine. It will provide an array of multimedia tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text. Quaero will also reportedly include a powerful translating tool which will be able to 'understand' audio as well as text. The developers plan to make Quaero available on all platforms, including PCs, mobile devices and digital TVs.'"

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Anything you can do I can do better... by jo7hs2 · 2006-01-16 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Welcome to the great technological pissing war.
January 16, 2011 by XorNand · 2006-01-16 07:08 · Score: 4, Funny

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - January 16, 2011 - Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced it acquired France, a country located in Western Europe, mostly associated with fine cheeses, wine, berets, and the 5-yr old search engine "Quaero".

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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1. Re:January 16, 2011 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-16 07:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  More likely:
  
  "26th of April 2006, Google declares war on France
  
  27th of April 2006, France surrenders and hands over presidency to Larry Page"
2. Re:January 16, 2011 by jnaujok · 2006-01-16 08:50 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You mispelled "whine".
  
  Oh, am I going to get nailed for this one...
  
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Real reason by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-16 07:09 · Score: 4, Funny

The real reason is to filter out certain results on the query "French Military History".
1. Re:Real reason by Compuser · 2006-01-16 07:29 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In that case, why involve Deutsche Telekom? Or rather, why did
  Deutsche Telekom get involved?
French search results? by HugePedlar · 2006-01-16 07:09 · Score: 3, Funny

Query: "King Richard the Lionheart"

Results: 1. "I fart in your general direction".

Seriously, though - I definitely think there's a market for an effective multimedia search engine: imagine being able to whistle a song into your mic, for example and being told what it was called.

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Wow by ScaryFroMan · 2006-01-16 07:15 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm usually not one to say that Slashdot is slow, but geeze, SNL got it first.
Something like its a search engine that after you enter in a query, it rudely refuses.

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The Latin pedant steps in... by tibbetts · 2006-01-16 07:16 · Score: 5, Funny

'Quaero' (Latin for 'to search')
No, it's Latin for 'I search'. The author should have Googled it.

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Re:Quaero.com taken by Xemu · 2006-01-16 07:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Check out http://www.quaero.com/ [quaero.com] - its a marketing company from Charlotte, North Carolina.

And they're pretty damn good at viral marketing if they even get the President of France to advertise for them.

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I had also heard... by Loco3KGT · 2006-01-16 07:17 · Score: 3, Funny

that France was looking to invent a "circular transportation facilitation device." Could I get someone to confirm that?

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Quaero? by nekoniku · 2006-01-16 07:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Sounds delicious! I'll have two, no onions.

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