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.'"

Comments

Re:Why not?

[malice]

Because Chirac/Schröder/Merkel think it's a bad idea to just rely on one foreign search engine in a nation that staggers fastly into becoming a fascist rouge state

Oh, the irony, Herr Tomoe. Anyhoo, never let reality get in the way of business... or politics, for that matter.

Much easier to just rattle off paranoid "fascist rogue state" rabble.

Re:Why not?

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't elaborate, you just group together things that have little to nothing in common. Good job on that one, though! Seriously, have you even tried to read those articles you link to?

Kudos to the moderators for demonstrating their total cluelessness! Note - a set of Wikipedia links is not by definition "interesting".