The President of France has stated that European countries must meet the global challenge posed by Google and Yahoo!
The President of France, Jacques Chirac, stated during his recent New Year address that France and other European countries must meet the global challenge posed by American giants - Google and Yahoo!
He warned that in future, all that is not available online runs the risk of being invisible to the world. Asserting that Quaero, Europe's response to Google, needs to be launched, the French President then discussed it at length.
Quaero, a Franco-German project, is being developed by a consortium including - Thomson, France Telecom, and Deutsche Telekom.
The project - whose Latin name means "I seek", will focus on 3 areas: a combined sound, image and video search engine for the general public; professional search applications; and audio-visual "heritage" such as historical footage.
Quaero is all about searches "understanding" audio, images and video, sans written descriptions; and stands test to a new research and development approach driven by the Agency for Industrial Innovation (AII), which is the discovery of Jean Louis Beffa, chairman - glass and ceramics group, Saint-Gobain.
While AII will provide half of the funding on the French side, with companies led by Thomson; discussions on the German side are ongoing, with the possibility of a similar arrangement being put in place between the government and companies led by Bertelsmann.
It is said that Quaero if successful will be the first "truly multimedia" search engine, and a powerful competitor to Google. Also, even though indexing multimedia content is at the root of Quaero, it will not limit itself to being an internet search engine. Apparently Thomson is interested in offering an in-built search facility on the set-top boxes it makes, plus supplying applications to its television and film company clients; Bertelsmann wants to create similar multimedia search facilities on various platforms.
Megaglobe : The Google-killer cometh
With an innovative new page rank method and a strategy to minimize click fraud for advertisers, Megaglobe.com is poised to shake up the the search engine industry.
The Google-slayer has arrived. Playing David to the Google Goliath, Megaglobe.com is poised to scale the peak of the search engine industry with new technological innovations.
?After having advertised extensively on major search engines, I have personally experienced the scale of click fraud that occurs,? says Naima Moore, CEO of Megaglobe. ?Megaglobe was born out of that experience, to offer advertisers the best value for their money.?
Megaglobe (available at http://www.megaglobe.com) will be Google?s hottest competition in a long time, protecting its advertisers from fraudulent click-throughs on their sponsored spots. Experts have estimated that click fraud accounts for as much as 30 per cent of an online advertiser?s expense, and Megaglobe will offer a revolutionary 0 per cent click fraud rate for sponsored ads. Advertisers will be able to verify clicks by comparing Megaglobe?s online reporting with their own server logs. Megaglobe?s sponsored listings will also be cheaper than those available on Google, Overture and Miva.
In addition, Megaglobe has come up with a new page rank method to offer users the best results for their searches. The search engine will trawl through more than a billion indexed pages, and search results can be translated into 150 languages, making Megaglobe the world?s first truly international search engine.
?So many advertisers I know have completely stopped opting for online spots because of click fraud,? says Moore. ?Megaglobe will address that crucial issue, as well as provide a much more efficient search algorithm, to seriously challenge Google?s reign at the top?
Lots of comments down here - remind me of the comments by Netscape's Anderssen retorts when informed about Microsoft's ideas for an integrated browser. True the browser may have had flaws - but it sure did kick Netscape's collective butts.
If the French are coming out with something - we ought to perhaps wait and watch, anything that is a competitor will only drive up quality - and make no mistake Google IS a monopoly - i don't know many using Yahoo/MSN search!
Frequent clashes of ego and business interests are leading to addition in the short list of search engines. In a huper-competitive world, it looks healthy but won't it increase the woes of the consumer. He will have to waste time from hopping one search engine to the other.--- AnilM (www.unholywars.org)
hey, its the news that makes me feel laughing with holding my belly...
but french are also good at technology... they have got advanced weapons than most of the countries (yes, US and some other countries are always an exception)... well lots...
so these things may go live, but with only few takers... after all, google is a leader bcoz it provides results... the best results provider will always be a leader in this business
French competitor to Google?????hahahaha hohohohohohoho....ROTFLMAO..The French are only good at making foodie items..They should leave the tech stuff to the Americans and the Germans..as for a google competitor..Exalead and previewseek already are worthy competitors.
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Megaglobe : The Google-killer cometh
With an innovative new page rank method and a strategy to minimize click fraud for advertisers, Megaglobe.com is poised to shake up the the search engine industry.
The Google-slayer has arrived. Playing David to the Google Goliath, Megaglobe.com is poised to scale the peak of the search engine industry with new technological innovations.
?After having advertised extensively on major search engines, I have personally experienced the scale of click fraud that occurs,? says Naima Moore, CEO of Megaglobe. ?Megaglobe was born out of that experience, to offer advertisers the best value for their money.?
Megaglobe (available at http://www.megaglobe.com) will be Google?s hottest competition in a long time, protecting its advertisers from fraudulent click-throughs on their sponsored spots. Experts have estimated that click fraud accounts for as much as 30 per cent of an online advertiser?s expense, and Megaglobe will offer a revolutionary 0 per cent click fraud rate for sponsored ads. Advertisers will be able to verify clicks by comparing Megaglobe?s online reporting with their own server logs. Megaglobe?s sponsored listings will also be cheaper than those available on Google, Overture and Miva.
In addition, Megaglobe has come up with a new page rank method to offer users the best results for their searches. The search engine will trawl through more than a billion indexed pages, and search results can be translated into 150 languages, making Megaglobe the world?s first truly international search engine.
?So many advertisers I know have completely stopped opting for online spots because of click fraud,? says Moore. ?Megaglobe will address that crucial issue, as well as provide a much more efficient search algorithm, to seriously challenge Google?s reign at the top?
Very interesting, then the French will spend the next several years arguing over the Frankification of the English words used to describe internet activities.