{"id":209,"date":"2018-07-16T16:54:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/?p=209"},"modified":"2018-07-16T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:55:36","slug":"quaero-the-myth-of-the-european-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/quaero-the-myth-of-the-european-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaero: The myth of the European search engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quaero (Latin: &#8220;I am searching&#8221;) was a Franco-German consortium project in which more than 30 organisations were involved and several hundred million euros were distributed as a subsidy. It would be an important scientific work to work through this. We have to deal with three Wikipedia entries<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaero\">https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaero<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaero\">https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaero<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaero\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaero<\/a><br \/>\nand with two small questions and two oral questions from the German Bundestag.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dip21.bundestag.de\/dip21\/btd\/16\/024\/1602492.pdf#page=7\">http:\/\/dip21.bundestag.de\/dip21\/btd\/16\/024\/1602492.pdf#page=7<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dip21.bundestag.de\/dip21\/btd\/16\/035\/1603565.pdf\">http:\/\/dip21.bundestag.de\/dip21\/btd\/16\/035\/1603565.pdf<\/a> &#8220;German-French innovation project of a European search engine Quaero&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/dipbt.bundestag.de\/doc\/btd\/16\/041\/1604102.pdf#page=12\">http:\/\/dipbt.bundestag.de\/doc\/btd\/16\/041\/1604102.pdf#page=12<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dip21.bundestag.de\/dip21\/btd\/16\/046\/1604671.pdf\">http:\/\/dip21.bundestag.de\/dip21\/btd\/16\/046\/1604671.pdf <\/a>Current developments of the search engine project Theseus &#8211; formerly Quaero<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theseus_(Research Program)\">https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theseus_(Research Program)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAfterwards, funding was provided on the German side without a call for proposals:<br \/>\nBertelsmann und verbundene Unternehmen (Konsortialf\u00fchrer: Empolis), SAP, Siemens, Thomson und verbundene Unternehmen, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Lycos, Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. \u2013 Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Forschung und Innovation (VFI)mbH, mittelst\u00e4ndische Firmen (morsophy, m2any, ontoprise, intelligent view, Pilot, 3D), universit\u00e4re Partner (Karlsruhe, M\u00fcnchen,Darmstadt, Konstanz), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur F\u00f6rderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Institut f\u00fcr Rundfunktechnik, Deutsches Forschungszentrum f\u00fcr K\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz GmbH und das Forschungszentrum Informatik. (Bundestags-Drucksache 16\/2492)<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, Quaero aimed to develop tools for indexing and managing digital multimedia and multilingual content (automatic information extraction, analysis, classification and use).<br \/>\nThe research institutes used it to finance their third-party-funded projects and the companies financed niche applications. Practically nothing came out of it. The music search does not work as a demo, the image search provides more effective instruments on the Internet. Websites still exist, some of them already broken.<br \/>\nThe most important thing for us is that it was not an attempt to develop a European search engine and the failure of this project was not a failure to develop such a search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quaero (Latin: &#8220;I am searching&#8221;) was a Franco-German consortium project in which more than 30 organisations were involved and several hundred million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retrievaldreams.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}