Articles in the Quaero Category
Conferences, Polar Rose, Quaero, Riya, Search Engines »
Last 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 focus on indexing multimedia content (images, videos, etc), as well as traditional Web pages.
Following up on this discussion, the Institute of Information Law at the University of Amsterdam are holding an Expert Workshop on”Audiovisual Search: …
Quaero, Search Engines, Values in Design »
I’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 value of privacy. I make eight privacy-protecting demands:
Quaero must be designed in such a way as to prevent any substantive response to a civil or criminal subpoena of user activity
Quaero must be designed so IP …
Quaero, Search Engines »
The 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, funded by the French state, in service of the public good, in the true tradition of the grand projet? An information machine capable of reclaiming European language and intellectual heritage in the age of globalization?
No. …
Quaero, Search Engines, Search privacy »
The 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 research and development, as then-President Jacques Chirac put it. It clearly is also an attempt to counteract the American dominance of Internet access and search technologies, as well as a direct challenge to Google’s efforts …
