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Another attempt at an EU Google-Killer

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 state [...]

The widget wagon rolls on…

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 [...]

PHAROS ‘the other Eurogoogle’ receives EU funding

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 [...]

Germany pulls the plug on Eurogoogle

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 [...]