[Ecommerce] EU Google Competitor Project Gets Aid Worth $166 Million

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  Is Googles evangelism efforts falling short of the mark?

See:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djhighlights/200707201712DOWJONESDJONLINE000829.htm

and
 http://theseus-programm.de/
 http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/07/0637205&tid=95

The news that the EU Commission has given the
go-ahead to provide funding for Germany's search engine project,
called Theseus. Early this year we discussed Germany's withdrawal
from the French project Quaero. From the outside, it looks like the EU
Commission is unwilling to put all its eggs in one basket, funding the
German project to the tune of 120 million euro, or $US 166 million. Dow
Jones reports: "The aim is to develop new search technologies for the
next generation Internet, including 'semantic technologies which try to
recognize the meaning of content and place it in its proper context.'
The
semantic Web has been considered the next evolution of the Internet at
least since Tim Berners-Lee, widely considered a creator of the current
version of the Internet, published an article describing it in 2001. In
theory, a semantic Web could receive a user request for information
about
fishing, for example, and automatically narrow the results according to
the user's individual needs rather than blanket the user with pages
related to numerous aspects of fishing. The Commission's funding
approval
Thursday immediately sparked talk of building a potential European
challenger to Web search leader Google Inc.

Regards,

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