Mon 11 Apr. 2005

France Detects a Cultural Threat in Google

The New York Times cites Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French National Library:

…Europe, he said, should counterattack by converting its own books into digital files and by controlling the page rankings of responses to searches.
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“European ranking should reflect a European vision of history and culture.”

But which Europe? That of the French, German and Spanish languages? That of the 25 members of the European Union? More crucially, will European governments or the public have the power to define the books and criteria used in response to search requests?

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