Posted by Orin Kerr:
Sixty Million Frenchmen *Can* Be Wrong:
Over at [1]Marginal Revolution, our occasional co-blogger Tyler links
to an interesting [2]Economist article about French "Googlephobia":
[President Jacques Chirac] asked his culture minister, Renaud
Donnedieu de Vabres, and Jean-Noël Jeanneney, head of France's
Bibliothèque Nationale, to . . . create a home-grown search-engine
to browse [French books.] Why not let Google do the job? Its French
version is used for 74% of internet searches in France. The answer
is the vulgar criteria it uses to rank results. "I do not believe",
wrote Mr Donnedieu de Vabres in Le Monde, "that the only key to
access our culture should be the automatic ranking by popularity,
which has been behind Google's success."
References
1.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/04/what_will_frenc.html
2. http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3819169
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