In the dimly lit cyber-café at Sciences-Po, hot-house of the French elite, no Gauloise smoke fills the air, no dog-eared copies of Sartre lie on the tables. French students are doing what all students do: surfing the web via Google. Now President Jacques Chirac wants to stop this American cultural invasion by setting up a rival French search-engine. The idea was prompted by Google’s plan to put online millions of texts from American and British university libraries. If English books are threatening to swamp cyberspace, Mr Chirac will not stand idly by.
He asked his culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and Jean-Noel 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 interuet searches in France. The answer is the vulgar criteria it uses to rank results. "I do n
A. compete with the American rival "Google"
B. protect French students from American invasion
C. preserve the integrity of the French culture
D. stop standing idly by when being threatened
In the dimly lit cyber-cafe at Sciences-Po, hot-house of the French elite, no Gauloise smoke fills the air, no dog-eared copies of Sartre lie on the tables. French students are doing what all students do: surfing the web via Google. Now President Jacques Chirac wants to stop this American cultural invasion by setting up a rival French search-engine. The idea was prompted by Google’s plan to put online millions of texts from American and British university libraries. If English books are threatening to swamp cyberspace, Mr Chirac will not stand idly by.
He asked his culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and Jean-Noёl Jeanneney, head of France’ s Bibliothèque Nationale, to do the same for French text—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 intemet searches in France. The answer is the vulgar criteria it uses to rank results. "I do not believe", wrote
A. compete with the American rival "Google".
B. protect French students from American invasion.
C. preserve the integrity of the French culture.
D. stop standing idly by when being threatened.
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