Quaero能否出台挑战Google

In April of 2005, Jacques Chirac and the German Chancellor¹ at the time, Gerhard Schröder, announced plans to spend over a billion euros on a joint² French-German search engine to compete with the American company Google. The project would be called Quaero, which is Latin for "I seek." After Angela Merkel replaced Schröder, the new German government never announced support for Quaero, and they have just announced that they are pulling out from the project. System architects from the two countries could not agree on the basic design of the search engine, with the French engineers planning on a multimedia³ search engine while the Germans preferred a greater focus on searching through text. The French team plans to continue work on the search engine.

1 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 multimedia   

adj.多种手段的，多媒体的；n.多媒体

参考例句：

• Multimedia is the combination of computer and video technology.多媒体是计算机和视频技术的结合。
• Adam raised the issue of multimedia applications and much useful discussion ensued.亚当提出了多媒体应用的问题，从而引发了许多有益的讨论。