Sunday, December 18th, 2005 by Andy Beal

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Japan Wants Its Own Search Engine

Japan’s government is a little jealous of the money being made by Google and plans to meet with 20 companies to discuss creating a rival search engine.

The companies will include leading electronics firms Matsushita Electric Industrial, Hitachi, NEC and Fujitsu as well as telecom carrier Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and public broadcaster NHK.

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1 comment on “Japan Wants Its Own Search Engine”

  1. NewsAndMediaBlog.com » Are Europe And The U.S. Headed Toward A Major Conflict Over Google? Says:

    July 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    [...] Of course, Theseus is just one leg on the mannequin. Japan wants in on the act as well. [...]