Should Chirac fund a European rival to Google?

[AtW]

"President Jacques Chirac has pledged E1.7bn of state funding for a series of "grands projets", including the Quaero initiative to create a search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. Is there a need for a European super-search engine, and is this the right way of achieving it, or should it be left to the market?"

http://forums.ft.com/2/OpenTopic?a=t...821#2711081821

SKA makes more sense now, eh?

[threaded]

If he gives you E1.7bn for SKA then you'll be laughing.

[Mordac]

Go for it Alex, and if you need any help spending all that cash, I'm sure we can offer up a few suggestions.

[Bovvered]

Should Chirac fund a European rival to Google?

No. The moment it gets popular and the frogs have to work a couple of hours extra to keep the servers ticking over they'll be on strike, and thousands of Euro-loving-lefties will be caught hitting F5 to the repeated sight of 404 errors.

[AtW]

Go for it Alex, and if you need any help spending all that cash, I'm sure we can offer up a few suggestions.

I will probably buy a house with it, and given house prices at the time I am likely to have just enough left to get some fish and chips, or is it Stella and a kebab nowadays?