Chirac's new innovation agency guns for Google
French President, Jacques Chirac has reinforced the development of a eurocentric search engine, baptised ‘Quaero’ from the Latin, by committing France’s new innovation agency to developing a Franco-German search engine to compete with the ‘Americans’. This makes the development one with teeth and money behind it. Does it have a chance of competing with the […]
Google loses ground to Baidu
Google’s share of China’s Internet search engine market is being rapidly eroded by its Chinese rival Baidu.com Inc, according to new report released today. The report was based on figures from Xinhau, the quasi-government China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) and reported on by the Search Engine Herald. Baidu.com has managed to increase its market […]