Blake writes “Economist.com | The French language is a story about the French government’s rather jaundiced view of Google:
“He [President Jacques Chirac] asked his culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and Jean-Noël Jeanneney, head of France’s Bibliothèque Nationale, to do the same for French texts—and create a home-grown search-engine to browse them. 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 believeâ€?, 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.â€?
Daniel Adds – The article also talks about how Google will ensure an eternal American stamp on history. That seems extreme to me. Everyone knows current digital information will be unreadable in the next 50 years anyway. 🙂
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