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EU to Develop Search Engine
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.'"
Yet, this story has nothing to do with the US or politics really. What the EU does shouldn't be in this section.
I know the editors are trying to instigate another US vs. EU flamewar, why are they allowed to troll like this?
French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine
"Quaero quickly surrenders its data centers to Google"
"Quaero results limited to wine, cheese, and speedo pics of Jerard Depardieu"
"Quaero snubs American visitors... But still loves Levi's, Coke, and American Pop Culture"
Perhaps the French are just pissed off that with Google one can type "French Military Victories" and hit I'm feeling lucky to see a fake google error message saying no web pages found. Better yet, perhaps socialist countries do not believe in page rankings. It's not fair to the lower ranked pages to be at the bottom, every page should have the same rank.
Alternatively: Anything you can do, you're probably only doing because you think you're God, and you hate us, and you're trying to annihilate our culture...with your crappy American technology, that we can do better.