European Tech Giants Craft Search Engine
Quaero is billed as Europes answer to Google, but it has a lot to live up to.
The awkward word which means to search in Latin is unlikely to flash across the continents computer screens anytime soon.
So far Quaero is just a scattering of top tech minds in labs across France and Germany, working on what they hope will be the worlds most advanced multimedia search engine.
Quaero epitomizes European ambitions especially for the French of creating alternatives to U.S. technological prowess. But facing off against super-rich, super-talented U.S. companies may prove daunting for the cumbersome consortium of European companies and public agencies hatching Quaero.
We must meet the global challenge of the American giants Google and Yahoo Chirac said in an address last week laying out his policy priorities for 2006.
