Silly little Jacques

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consumer demand should not triumph over good taste and cultural sophistication.

So Sayeth the French.

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.
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“I do not believe”, wrote Mr Donnedieu de Vabres in Le Monde, “that the only key to access our culture should be the automatic ranking by popularity, which has been behind Google's success.”

How dare the foolish users of search engines determine the ranking of responses? Good thing the French government is there to push back the encroachment of the English speaking world. Hell, if they don't take care of this soon, someone might google across the idea that France is way past her prime on the world scene.