I followed a bit this 'Quaero' quest and it seems that:
- Public funding has not yet started and is not likely to start (french elections, EU commission blocking, etc...)
- Even though no public $$ has been spent yet, Exalead, a Quaero member, already has a Web search engine, with a few billion pages, and some nice features. (thumbnails and automatic clustering)
Conclusion: this Quaero project is a french politic vaporware, BUT any private french or european company may still have a chance to produce something interesting for the search engine market. Even if they're french;)
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I followed a bit this 'Quaero' quest and it seems that:
...)
;)
- Public funding has not yet started and is not likely to start (french elections, EU commission blocking, etc
- Even though no public $$ has been spent yet, Exalead, a Quaero member, already has a Web search engine, with a few billion pages, and some nice features. (thumbnails and automatic clustering)
Conclusion: this Quaero project is a french politic vaporware, BUT any private french or european company may still have a chance to produce something interesting for the search engine market. Even if they're french