Should Chirac fund a European rival to Google?

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AtW replied

25 April 2006, 15:46
Originally posted by 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.

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?
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Bovvered replied

25 April 2006, 13:50
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.
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Mordac replied

25 April 2006, 13:45
Go for it Alex, and if you need any help spending all that cash, I'm sure we can offer up a few suggestions.
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threaded replied

25 April 2006, 13:42
If he gives you E1.7bn for SKA then you'll be laughing.
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AtW started a topic Should Chirac fund a European rival to Google?

25 April 2006, 13:29
Should Chirac fund a European rival to Google?

"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?
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