Sunday, September 30, 2007
Japan Announces Plans To Develop Search Engine
Japans Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has announced that they will devote approximately 14-15 million yen (a yen being the equivalent of approximately 0.00881 of a U.S. dollar) to the development of an online search engine to rival Google.
This project will include the projects and collective efforts of ten Japanese technology partnerships, each one focusing on a different area of research. A team of scientists from NTT Data, Toyota InfoTechnology Centre, and Toyota Mapmaster, will begin work on a personalized car navigation system.
Both the French and German governments announced similar projects earlier this year, collaborating on development of the Quaero search engine. Quaero, Latin for I search, is still under the development, but Germany has since pulled out of the project, leaving it to the newly created French Agency for Industrial Innovation.
The Japanese announcement of a search engine development comes after concerns expressed by the Japanese government that the reputation and influence of companies like Google contribute to growing fears that the country, known for its technological innovations, is now falling behind.
Toshihide Yahiro, director of the information service industry division at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, is optimistic about the project, and was quoted, according to Information World Review Online, as saying The question is how Japanese companies like Sharp and Matsushita can be encouraged to provide services.
They (the researchers involved in the project) clearly know how to build things, and the key to Japans competitiveness has been our core technology, Yahrio added.
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By: Christiane Sing
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This project will include the projects and collective efforts of ten Japanese technology partnerships, each one focusing on a different area of research. A team of scientists from NTT Data, Toyota InfoTechnology Centre, and Toyota Mapmaster, will begin work on a personalized car navigation system.
Both the French and German governments announced similar projects earlier this year, collaborating on development of the Quaero search engine. Quaero, Latin for I search, is still under the development, but Germany has since pulled out of the project, leaving it to the newly created French Agency for Industrial Innovation.
The Japanese announcement of a search engine development comes after concerns expressed by the Japanese government that the reputation and influence of companies like Google contribute to growing fears that the country, known for its technological innovations, is now falling behind.
Toshihide Yahiro, director of the information service industry division at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, is optimistic about the project, and was quoted, according to Information World Review Online, as saying The question is how Japanese companies like Sharp and Matsushita can be encouraged to provide services.
They (the researchers involved in the project) clearly know how to build things, and the key to Japans competitiveness has been our core technology, Yahrio added.
Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com
By: Christiane Sing
Christiane Sing is a reporting editor for SEOhaus a San Diego Internet Marketing Company
// posted by madalinexmud @ 5:08 PM 
