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At a time when Google holds 90% of the search market in Germany and Spain, and almost 75% in Britain and it is generally acknowledged that European companies in spend far less on research than those based in other parts of the world, one of the many fragmented ‘EuroGoogle’ efforts is about to receive […]

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I’d like to share in some of the optimise shown by …?… (alarm:clock euro posts are never signed apparently) on the subject of Exalead the French Search Engine. I would. But I can’t.

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Two Swedes in the Net news.
Twingly pulls in blog RSS feeds from all over the world, showing them accumulate in pillars on a rotating 3D globe. Post titles scroll by; click on any title to display the post and have the globe flip to the blog’s physical location.
Hackzine calls it “Fun eye candy for a […]

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French start-up Criteo, the distributed recommendation service, is dishing out their ‘collaborative filtering technology’ for use in the blogosphere with the AutoRoll widget.
The idea is a dynamic blog roll made up of similar sites that the people who visit your site have an affinity with. It’s a community thing I suppose, a kind of MyBlogLogs […]

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If you can you sing it or whistle it, or piece it together on a virtual piano, or even tap it’s rhythm on your PC keyboard, then there is a chance you might find out where that song comes from with a little help from The Open Music Encyclopedia.
Musipedia has been under constant development since […]

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FAST, the Norwegian company leading the search engine project known as Pharos - Platform for Search of Audiovisual Resources Across Online Spaces - has announced an €8 million grant from the European Commission.
“This research fund is validation of the key tenets and concepts behind PHAROS…” said Bjørn Olstad, FAST’s CTO and designated Technical Director […]

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To anybody left wondering what ever happened to Quaero - the Franco-German Internet search engine that was scheduled to be officially launched in early 2006 - it appears to have taken yet another two steps backwards into Franco-French.
At an IT Summit in Potsdam the German Economics minister, Hartmut Schauerte announced that the German Government is […]

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After all the buzz on October 24 - Google launched Google CSE (custom search engine) a system for customizing the search engine around a given theme - here are 3 systems that have already been transplanted onto Google. The theme? - throwing out the Ads.
The first one uses Google CSE, the second a simple […]

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