January 20th, 2006
Quaero (Latin: “to search”) is nothing more than vapourware but its reputation seems to be snowballing into a “Google killer”.
It’s not surprising that the EU are considering a search engine given their recent interest in carving out a EU sized chunk of the web with the new .eu top level domain. Though it does seem the main push behind the project is from the French lead by Chirac and his policies to
“…meet the global challenge of the American giants Google and Yahoo”
The new engine promises to be a sophisticated method for indexing all kinds of media, as well as offering ways to translate and identify it. Nevertheless I do have mixed feelings on government subsidies, in my opinion between entrusting how you find information to either a government or a company, the company would be the lesser of two evils; at least you always know their agenda.
January 26th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Indexing media, eh? Check out http://www.annodex.org and http://www.annodex.net
Now that is awesome.
February 5th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Now that I’m back I thought I’d more carefully read over some of my favourite blogs, because sitting in the lounge area of the link, main building of the Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand with 200 linux hackers/otherwise open source people sitting, chatting, coding and having a great time around you is somewhat… distracting?
Yea, anyways. Have you heard of mozdex? It’s an open source search engine, pretty new in the scheme of things. It popped up around last year and the Libervis community has been working together with the leader of mozdex. Quite interesting for some of us to see how this whole search engine stuff goes.
“Nevertheless I do have mixed feelings on government subsidies, in my opinion between entrusting how you find information to either a government or a company, the company would be the lesser of two evils; at least you always know their agenda.”
I don’t trust either.