Quest for a Euro-Google by Peter Day, BBC News (May 18)
"Some time this autumn Francois Bourdoncle will roll out what he would like to call a "Google killer"." Bourdoncle is the CEO of Exalead who is also involved in Quaero project to build a new search engine with European sensibilities. This is partly a culture war and partly a grab for advertising dollars. It's likely that Quaero will have clustering --
"Search for Kyoto on this new engine and you may get climate change, in a special folder; not the 85-million page references Google throws up.
"We go in deeper but then wider," he [Bourdoncle] says, slightly mystically.
He promises eight billion Internet pages surveyed on these principles when the new engine has its fullscale launch in the autumn. "
Posted by Gwen at May 22, 2006 01:56 PM