p2p news / p2pnet: French president, Jacques Chirac hopes his great legacy to France’s "struggle against the global dominance of the US" will be a series of technological projects, among them a, "European search engine to rival Google," says The Guardian Unlimited.

"After the biggest street protests in decades forced him to stage a U-turn on employment reform last month, Mr Chirac is keener than ever to be remembered for doing something positive for French pride," says the story.

Named Quaero Latin for "I search," the search engine, "aims to be the first to efficiently sort through audio, images and video.

"It would search the growing array of podcasts and videoclips on the web and deliver the information to computers and mobile phones."

France must, "meet the global challenge of the American giants Google and Yahoo!," Chirac said at the beginning of the year.

"Today the new geography of knowledge and cultures is being drawn. Tomorrow, that which is not available online runs the risk of being invisible to the world."

Also See:
The Guardian Unlimited - Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French pride, April 26, 2006
American giants - Quaero: Latin for ‘to search’, January 16, 2006

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