France launches 'Quaero' search engine project By Anne-Francoise Pele, EE Times (Apr 25)
"President Jacques Chirac of France announced Tuesday (April 25) a 2 billion euro (about $2.5 billion) plan to back a series of projects including one on a Franco-German search engine intended to rival Google." ... "The six projects include the multimedia search engine “Quaero”, which means “I search for” in Latin, which is intended to compete with the ubiquitous Google. The “Quaero” project aims at developing multimedia search software for the general public that would be used on both computers and mobile phones."
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