In his 2006 New Year's address, French President Jacques Chirac apparently focused on Quaero, a new
search engine being built by "some of the top tech labs in France and
Germany." The project is ambitious, to say the least, reportedly providing
"an array of multimedia tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text," including "a
powerful translating tool which will be able to 'understand' audio as well as text," and available on mobile
devices and digital TVs. Beyond that, the article is tantalizingly vague, and includes this less-than-promising
passage: "The ambitious project will probably not be available anytime in the
near future. Quaero is still in the earliest stages of development, so early that none of the major players have yet
ventured a guess as to how much the project might cost. When Quaero does launch, it
will have a great deal of catching up to do." Good luck with that, Chirac.[Via Slashdot]
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1-16-2006 @ 10:37PM
Barbarossa said...
Smells like burning vaporware to me.
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1-17-2006 @ 6:18PM
mandarin said...
WHy do they always want to be different ?
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1-17-2006 @ 6:39PM
Fabulo said...
(For those who know) maybe the new search engine is available on Minitel. 3615 LeSearch.
And since it is endorsed by the French Govt, it can only be a success :)
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