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Chirac Helps Fund New European Search Engine
By Chris Crum
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2005-08-31
Telegraph reported that French president Jacques Chirac has pledged to aid the funding of a new European Internet search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo.
Chirac plans to provide loans to a Franco-German multimedia search engine because he feels that power is at stake in France and Europe. Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineWatch writes:
I guess Chirac sort of forgot about French-based Voila, which I believe still uses its own Francophone technology and which also apparently is number two in France. How about Seekport, the European-based search company that runs several multi-language editions? Fireball's an old favorite, a German-based service that had its own technology, though I'm not sure what it's using now. FAST is the Norwegian-based company that gave birth to AllTheWeb, now owned by Yahoo, but which still has web search technology it provides to others like Miva.
The project is being so far being called "Project Quaero" meaning "to seek". More details about the project are supposed to be released within the next month.
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