{"id":6611,"date":"2012-11-05T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T09:53:55","slug":"french-google-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/11\/french-google-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"French government may fund another useless Google competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Irrespective\u00a0of the current acrimony between Google<\/a> and the EU, French government, the French press, etc,\u00a0Google still dominates search in France<\/a> and can now boast of\u00a0having France’s top browser in Chrome<\/a>\u00a0[FR]. \u00a0 All of this, of course, unnerves the\u00a0government\u00a0to no end. \u00a0So, (perhaps) predictably, they’re now mulling over having another go at creating a successful “made in France or Europe” search engine. \u00a0This idea, looks to have fairly solid, bi-partisan support amongst France’s d\u00e9put\u00e9es\u00a0(think\u00a0congressmen\u00a0, which was\u00a0captured\u00a0nicely by StreetPress in this video<\/a>\u00a0[FR]. \u00a0Of course, the success France had\u00a0with Minitel<\/a> was invoked as what they’d like to achieve with search.
\nIronically, the government seems to forget that France and the EU already tried this and it didn’t work out too well. Project Quarero<\/a>,\u00a0launched in 2005 by France and the EU, was an effort to create a European competitor to Google. \u00a0Exalead<\/a>, founded in 2000 and now owned by Dassault Systems<\/a>, was considered to be a good example of the type of search engine the EU was looking to create, as a result, was incorporated in the broader initiative. \u00a0After launching to much fanfare in 2007 and receiving the AFDEL award in 2008<\/a> for software publisher with the strongest growth, Exalead wasn’t able to\u00a0compete with the likes of Google<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, and Yahoo!<\/a>\u00a0and, thus, was largely forgotten. \u00a0The general feeling is\u00a0that Exalead’s failure was due more to lack of promotion of it as a serious alternative to the search engine leaders, rather than to inferior product development and\/or technology. \u00a0However, it’s pretty difficult to see how creating a government-backed Google alternative will be any different this time around. \u00a0In fact, given that non-French companies now dominate search engines, devices, platforms, etc. to such a degree, it’s likely to be even more difficult this time.
\nNot sure about anyone else, but were kind of getting tired of the litany of initiatives coming out from the government that end up going nowhere. \u00a0Surely all this energy, time and, ultimately money, could be put to better use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irrespective\u00a0of the current acrimony between Google and the EU, French government, the French press, etc,\u00a0Google still dominates search in France and can now boast of\u00a0having France’s top browser in Chrome\u00a0[FR]. \u00a0 All of this, of course, unnerves the\u00a0government\u00a0to no end. \u00a0So, (perhaps) predictably, they’re now mulling over having another go at creating a successful “made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[7347],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-google-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}