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Fucking fascinating!

French President Jacques Chirac focused on plans for a European search engine to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google.
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Some of the top tech labs in France and Germany are reportedly working on the 'Quaero' (Latin for 'to search') search engine.
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But for the Quaero project, more may be at stake, namely Europe's cultural identity in the information age.
As President Chirac said in his New Year's address, 'Today the new geography of knowledge and cultures is being drawn. Tomorrow, that which is not available online runs the risk of being invisible to the world.'

Once Nation States get involved with (and fund) development of internet systems a totally new power battle front opens up.