01-16-2006, 12:08 PM
Quote:In his New Year's address outlining his administration's plans for 2006, French President Jacques Chirac focused on plans for a European search engine to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google. Some of the top tech labs in France and Germany are reportedly working on the 'Quaero' (Latin for 'to search') search engine.
...it will be much more than a typical search engine. It will provide an array of multimedia tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text. Quaero will also reportedly include a powerful translating tool which will be able to 'understand' audio as well as text. The developers plan to make Quaero available on all platforms, including PCs, mobile devices and digital TVs.
full article: http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default....leID=12650
Quote:European "Google Killer", Quaero, Not A Real Threat
However, nobody really knows how this new product will actually look like, because, according to the Franco-German Economic Cooperation Working Group, Quaero appears not to be a single product but rather a project to develop search and content management technologies for end users, media companies and service providers, to address the growing volume of digital multimedia content on the web. They will include technologies for annotating and searching all kinds of content, including video and text, and even translating results into other languages.
full article: http://www.playfuls.com/news_0765_Europe...reat_.html