Originally published February 12 2006
Europe to create search engine to rival Google
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Quaero is currently in the planning phase to be the world's most advanced multimedia search engine. Designers claim that Quaero will be a search engine, translating tool, image indexer and more that will work with all platforms.
So far Quaero is just a scattering of top tech minds in labs across France and Germany, working on what they hope will be the world's most advanced multimedia search engine.
Quaero epitomizes European ambitions _ especially for French President Jacques Chirac _ of creating alternatives to U.S. technological prowess.
"We must meet the global challenge of the American giants Google and Yahoo," Chirac said in an address last week laying out his policy priorities for 2006.
The technology would work with all platforms _ computer desktops, mobile devices and even televisions _ and be sold to television companies, filmmakers, post-production facilities and anyone who creates or uses audiovisual content, according to France's electronics giant Thomson.
It's already introducing an array of new software and offering telecommunications services that move it well beyond its roots.
Google also has been aggressively seeking ways to import offline media, such as books and television shows, into its Internet search engine.
Even U.S. technology powerhouses like Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. haven't been able to erode Google's dominance, even after spending tens of millions of dollars to improve their search engines.
Through November, Google held a 40 percent share of the U.S. search market, up from 35 percent in the previous year, according to comScore Media Metrix.
French broadcasters are planning an international television network aimed at presenting a more French view of world events than CNN and the British Broadcasting Corp.
The network, CFII, will broadcast in French and English to Europe, the Middle East and Africa beginning sometime in the next year.
Europe launched a satellite last month aimed at rivaling the U.S. Global Positioning System.
France has also launched an effort to put libraries online, a response to an ambitious book-scanning project at Google.
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