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France Pouring Euros Into Quaero 
By: David Utter 2006-04-26 $250 million Euros, or about $313 million USD, will find its way from the pockets of French taxpayers into funding the Google rival project Quaero. The French-German initiative backed by Thomson, Bertelsmann AG, and other companies just received news of a big cash infusion from the French government, said a report in Information Week. "Faced with the exponential growth of search engines, France, with its German partners and tomorrow, I hope, its European partners, had to draw level with this key challenge," French president Jacques Chirac said in a speech. The "key challenge" being Google, or more to the point, American-made, US-based, world-dominant search engine Google. Investments in the Quaero project should go beyond just web search and encompass other multimedia search initiatives. It's another chapter in the love-hate relationship France has with the US. Recently, its trade minister, Christine Lagarde, stopped by American shores to tell successful Silicon Valley executives that they should invest in France and pay no attention to the medieval labor and political problems inherent in the French system. "I don’t want the crap," Lagarde told the media, in response to those complaints. Oh, and France still wants Apple to crack open its Fairplay DRM in the country so it can build a digital music business on Apple's American-made, US-based, world-dominant iTunes and iPod creations. Meanwhile a link to Quaero.com goes to a North Carolina-based marketing firm. Quaero.eu shows as "application pending" in a whois lookup; let's hope Thomson is the registrant. --- Tag: Quaero Add to | DiggThis | Yahoo! My Web | Furl It | PreFound.com Bookmark WebProNews - 
About the Author: David Utter is a staff writer for SearchNewz and WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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