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[dataking]

France and Germany tried their hand at a publicly funded Google (search engine) competitor [0]. It is also worth reading up on EU projects such as Galileo and Gaia-X. If history is any guide, it would not likely go according to plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

[rad_gruchalski → dataking]

> France and Germany tried their hand at a publicly funded Google (search engine) competitor [0].

From linked wiki page:

> The consortium was led by Thomson SA.

As an ex-Technicolor employee, it doesn’t surprise me that this went nowhere.

[mhitza → dataking]

Not sure about Galileo, but Gaia-X is not an EU project. It's a project started by a group of private companies, just because they are companies located in the EU, it does not make it an EU project.

Anyway, Gaia-X will definitely be a flop, or rather, will remain vaporware IMHO.