Germany to fund Theseus - a Google Rival
The European Union gave Germany the nod to spend 120 million euros ($167 million) on research into Theseus, a search engine to compete against Google.
The project boasts high profile partners including Siemens, SAP as well as other high profile companies and governmental/semi governmental institutions.
Theseus aims to be a multimedia search engine and includes text translation tools as well as tools for identifying and indexing images, sound and text.
Siemens’ Vice President of Corporate Technology Hartmut Raffler said of the project:
“Theseus will make it possible for all Internet users to have easy access to global knowledge, the technology Theseus will develop will generate new knowledge from knowledge.”
Theseus is named after a character in Greek mythology who uses thread to navigate King Minos’ maze and was originally a French-German search initiative called Quaero.
Quaero split in December 2006, with the French continuing to work on Quaero and the Germans working on Theseus.
It seems like the bug to compete with google is spreading
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