More search engine competition on the way
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo may be in for a bigger challenge
than just from each other. In a report from MSN Mainichi Japan, 30 large
organizations consisting of the University of Tokyo and other large electronics
companies such as Hitachi, Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd. and the Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone group have banded together to create a new advanced search engine.
The Japanese government is also providing funding for the major project.
According
to the report (English),
major Japanese corporations fear that the top three globally used search
engines are US-based companies, and this may prevent other international
organizations from entering the market.
The new search engine technology is said to be openly modifiable by users and
other enterprises for specific needs. The search engine can be configured for
example, to search for only specific topics related to medicine instead of
general Internet information. Concerns that a monopoly is occurring was also a
main reason for this major joint project. Google's censoring of
information for users residing in China was also something that the group
decided was control of information in a negative way.
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