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Lost in translation
‘These hordes of swimmers must have been what Jacques Chirac was talking about when he referred to an “American cultural invasion” while planning to set up a rival French search engine to Google in August 2005,’ says Phil Beynon at
Infolink Electronic Systems.
Can our Francophone readers enlighten us as to the progress of project Quaero, which he announced at the time?
It has gone ominously silent, perhaps because Chirac’s advisers have found that Google searches for French web pages, too.
We don’t have high hopes: as Phil reminds us, when the project came to register its web site, it discovered that Quaero.com had already been registered in 1998. By an American company.
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