French President Jacques Chirac has pledged funding a new European multimedia search engine to challenge Google, Yahoo and other Anglo-Saxon search threats. I tried cars in Beijing in English, and have no idea what I got back -- but it does look...
Google said it will only enter the French
market if it is first given an official guarantee that it will not be sued by anyone in France nor accosted of pushing Anglo-Saxon clothing. Given the UK rollout, language on the site is written in UK...
A month after we posted on the head of the France's national library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) being concerned with Google's ambitious program to digitize library materials from several large libraries "favouring Anglo-Saxon ideas and the...
Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France's national library and is a noted historian, says Google's choice of works is likely to favour Anglo-Saxon ideas and the English language. It is not a question of despising Anglo-Saxon views .