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EU to Develop Search Engine

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Anything you can do I can do better... by jo7hs2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Welcome to the great technological pissing war.

  2. January 16, 2011 by XorNand · · 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 · · 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"

  3. Real reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real reason is to filter out certain results on the query "French Military History".

  4. Wow by ScaryFroMan · · 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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  5. The Latin pedant steps in... by tibbetts · · 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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  6. Re:Quaero.com taken by Xemu · · 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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