Archive for the 'Quaero' Category
Audiovisual Search: Regulatory Challenges for Audiovisual Abundance
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Last fall I had the pleasure of participating in a “Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine” hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. My talk at that event outlined the unique privacy threats that are emerging as search engines — like Quaero — increasingly […]
Privacy and Quaero’s Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Threats and Opportunities
Saturday, September 29th, 2007I’m in Maastricht today participating in the “Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine.” In my talk, “Privacy and Quaero’s Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Threats and Opportunities,” I call on the designers of the Quaero project to engage in value-conscious design in order to protect the […]
Update on Quaero Forum
Saturday, September 15th, 2007The program for the “Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine” has been posted online (along with a promotional flyer):
Quaero: isn’t that the search engine that former French president Jacques Chirac declared to be the European challenge to Google? A public alternative to Silicon Valley-born commercial search engines, […]
Quaero Forum: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine
Friday, July 27th, 2007The Jan van Eyck Academie in beautiful Maastricht, Netherlands is hosting a forum on the French information technology project Quaero, its political agenda, and the new frontiers that appear if its initial questions are to be taken seriously.
For the unacquainted, Quaero — “I search” in Latin — is a French, state-sponsored effort to boost technological […]




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