Saw this story this morning--European tech giants craft search engine and it's sorta funny, especially the part where Chirac had to give a speech and say the names "Google" and "Yahoo."
It's also a bit sad that there aren't private European companies capable of coming up with a competing system without the saddle of the government. Sadder still is the primary idea behind the whole venture isn't to make a better mousetrap, but rather seems to be a move to assuage some sort of governmental/societal sense of tarnished Gallic honor, resulting in wasting great wads of cash to reinvent la roue. (Oh, and thanks, Google Language Tool!)
Well, whatever, I guess.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 11, 2006 09:19 AM