Google "library" sparks French warcry

Mirror ^ | 2/18/05 | Timothy Heritage

[SF Republican]

"warcry" which we all know sound a lot like a white flag

[LauraleeBraswell]

FYI-

France also Bans Fox News

[elfman2]

The pathetic whimpering of a once great nation bankrupt of any modern ideas worth indexing and unable to do it themselves.

[bahblahbah]

Google to France: Resistance is futile.

[Cat loving Texan]

"Here we find a risk of crushing domination by America in defining the idea that future generations have of the world,"

Very good. Your language is irrelevant and will be replaced by Arabic in your country and English in the rest of the world.

[SF Republican]

"Here we find a risk of crushing domination by America in defining the idea that future generations have of the world," - actually I saw they were going to be copying books like the Gutenberg Bible (probably not written in English) and ancient transcripts which are only available to very few researchers at this time, which will now be available to the world - very exciting news i think

[fat city]

"Here we find a risk of crushing domination by America in defining the idea that future generations have of the world,"

Oh yeah, we don't want to leave out those wonderful Jean Genet novels.

[DJ Frisat]

Sorry, Mr. Frenchy-Frenchman. You're lipping off at the country that made the internet. You don't like what goes on it, go suck some parfaits.

[patton]

Now, I'm guessin' the french gentleman has probably never googled "French Military Victories."

LOLOLOL

[Savage Beast]

"His views are making waves among intellectuals in France, where many people are wary of the impact of American ways and ideas on the French language and culture."

Not nearly as destructive to the French language and culture as is the self-destructive decadence that infects contemporary France like a plague--to the grief and dismay of us Francophiles.

[BlazingArizona]

He wants the European Union to balance this with its own programme and its own Internet search engines.

Fair enough. So why not get in there and compete? Afraid that this would require putting the French to w-o-r-k? If this proves too much of a burden, they could always outsource the job.

[Buck W.]

I've read Camus, Sartre, Proust, Voltaire, Ionesco, etc., and learned much from them.

Oh, I read them in English.

[Shisan]

Saint Genet knew how to google if anyone did.

[Caesar Soze]

I wonder why Google doesn't just index the Gutenberg Project. That would likely finish off the French for once and for all.

[jbwbubba]

Why does this require a "warcry" from this pompous twit. If he wants to put French classics on the net in french lanquage, then do it. Why go out of the way to attack Google for what they are doing; when Google hasn't even done anything yet. Plus with all the money Google pours in the dem coffers, I think you can bet the frogs point of view will be well represented

[beezdotcom]

Very good. Your language is irrelevant and will be replaced by Arabic in your country and English in the rest of the world.

Except for here, where we'll all be speaking Spanish...

[July 4th]

The French don't have to worry. With all of the Democrats at Google, they'll index a bunch of pap in english that no one will read anyhow.

[KidGlock]

French warcry????

"RETREAT!!!!!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France's national library and is a noted historian, says Google's choice of works is likely to favour Anglo-Saxon ideas and the English language.

Sorry that you are now irrelevant Jean but that is the way it goes.

I hope you enjoy your new quarters on the ash heap of history