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Germany Quits EU-Based Search Engine Project
anaesthetica writes "The Quaero project, a French initiative to build a European rival to Google, has lost the backing of the German government. The search engine was announced in 2005 by Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, but the German government under Merkel has decided that Quaero isn't worth the $1.3-2.6 billion commitment that development would require. Germany will instead focus on a smaller search engine project called Theseus. From the article: 'According to one French participant, organizers disagreed over the fundamental design of Quaero, with French participants favoring a sophisticated search engine that could sift audio, video and other multimedia data, while German participants favored a next- generation text-based search engine.'"
If the EUtopian's Department of Redundancy Department wants to spend billions of Euros making their own Google clone, or a GPS clone, or a whole new European internet just so they can say it's not controlled by an American corporation, more power to them, because the results aren't what they're looking for, only keeping people employed in their make-work economy.
Yeah, you're an idiot. Various government entities that don't include congress have been around in the US for a long time, the most intrusive being the ones most supported by the dems. BATFE, FDA, and the FCC are the most recognizable, and the one least overviewed by the govt. is the BATFE. So shut the fuck up about this presidency being the one doing the most damage to actual freedoms as the situations been circling the drain for quite some time. The eliminates article 1. Article 2 is eliminated by various presidencies saying that tehy witholdcertain abilities as well as the fact that something has to go to court to be reliably eliminated as unconstitutional, and the courts have been known to refuse to hear certain cases if they don't want to get involved in something particularly sticky. Article 3 is largely irrelevant to the discussion I think, not sure, other than the obvious ability of various government agencies to make their own law. Art4 is something which does not apply, while yes, art5 is similar to the patriot act and a dozen similar bills that were passed with a time limit.