Digital Media Asia: News - France's top librarian attacks Google online library plans, calls for 'European' search engine: "As American president George Bush arrives in Europe, the head of France's national library has criticised San Francisco-based search engine giant Google's plans to put books from major libraries and universities online and called for the European Union to institute a programme of its own and develop a European web browser in order to combat the dominance of the English language and American ideas.
The president of the National Library of France, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, believes that Google and its library partners will inevitably tend to choose works, according to an interview he gave to the Reuters news agency.
'I favor a multi-polar view of the world in the 21st century,' he told the agency. 'I don't want the French Revolution retold just by books chosen by the United States.'
France's top librarian wants Europe to develop its own online library programme and internet search engines in order to protect French and other European languages and culture from American influence.
Last autumn, Google announced a partnership with some of the largest libraries in the world to scan and place online the contents of millions of books. "
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