January 16, 2006

Quaero's 2006 ultimate plans were partially made public in documents unveiled by Thomson.net.

Quaero, latin for ‘I seek, or to search’ is set to focus on three major areas:

* Combined sound, image and video search engine
* Professional search applications
* Audio-visual heritage such as historical footage.

The Quaero project has been played up to be a pet project of French President Jacques Chirac who told the media last week “We must take up the challenge posed by the American giants Google and Yahoo.

For that, it will launch a European search engine, Quaero.”

The media hoopla around the event and questions as to the direction of Quaero led to Thomson’s (Thomson.net is leading the Quaero project) chairman, Frank Dangeard, to declare a “news blackout", which then led to the Quaero project’s website to be taken offline.

A Thomson spokesperson told the media “There’s been a lot of noise and our chairman decided we should stop making any comments until a more official press event”

Thankfully, Google (yes, the US super giant) has the pages cached and some of the press releases are still available, in French.

Here is a rundown from Thomson.net on the mission of Quaero, dubbed Multimedia Content Search Evolution.

Due to multimedia content volume explosion, caused by recent and successive technology breakthroughs, as well as new consumer modes, industry needs to provide new multimedia search solutions.

Although content is everywhere (mobile, networks,…), content becomes less accessible, since “digital” browsing is cumbersome.

Existing solutions do not respond respond to new dimensions of multimedia content and creativity, which require improved infrastructure and breadth of content management & search applications.

The Overview goals on to list the goals of Quaero:

* To facilitate the emergence of industrial leaders deploying multimedia search solutions.

* To create innovative and disruptive technology solutions (technology bricks, systems, services) enhancing access and manipulation of multimedia contents:

* To provide organizations and users with means to search, select and navigate multimedia contents

* To enhance the content production, management and distribution value chain for better search capabilities

Additionally, Thomson.net confirms that a variety of business models will be used to monetize and expand Quaero, including:

* Search software licensing
* Search services for B2B and B2C applications

Source: Search Engine Journal

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