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by tj on May 16, 2006
"5- A Galaxy of actors who compete to get the subventions and don't get much noticed for their latest web innovations
About 25 organisations are involved in Quaero, mostly french. Even though many have excellent reputation, none of them are really known for their innovation around the web today, I mean around the latest standards RSS, conversations, tags, etc. Of course there is Lycos Europe but is Lycos still on the cutting edge of Internet initiatives ?
6- Not really international.
Quaero is introduced by Jacques Chirac as a Franco-German initiative when Deutsche Telecom has already announced it will not take an active role anymore but just be an observer. It looks much more like a French patriotic initiative.
7- A neverending story.
Quaero has been announced as a 5 years project when Google is only barely 8 years old, where will Google be in 5 years when Quaero is finally launched ? In a French podcast, François Bourdoncle, President of Exalead, a company that is said to lead the "multiple heads missile" as he calls the "programme Quaero" admits he does not even know when it should be launched. It was supposed to be introduced in January 2006 and we are still waiting."
While you can argue about some of the points - Loic expresses the biggest issues. I'm amazed how European taxpayers (through their governments) are willing to bankroll such a rather an undertaking. There is hardly a big need for a 'European Search Project'. If so there would have been a critical mass of European and American/ Asian investors that would have wanted to invest in it. My guess the whole thing will end up as a 'living corpse' where hopefully noone asks for an ROI!
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