Quero Search For Networked Future
Posted on March 14, 2008
Filed Under What's New, European Web 2.0 |
I caught this below by way of the lewispr blog.
“The European Union’s competition watchdog has approved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google.
The Quaero project is a coalition of 23 companies led by French technology giant Thomson.”
It originated in the Daily Telegraph.
Curious because Google and most other search engines began as garage start-ups. I have a bit of background with Quero as a couple of years back I wrote the document that facilitiated a Euro 50 million investment by the EU in audio-visual search. It was the keep Quero afloat moment. A large part of the justification was, Europe needs a multimedia and semantic search option (Yahoo might argue it is getting there).
I wasn’t against the idea of a European response to Google though then and now I find it debilitating that European politicians and bureaucrats believe it will come from a consortium of large companies.
Comments
WordPress database error: [Can't open file: 'wp_comments.MYI'. (errno: 144)]
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '786' AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date
Leave a Reply