{"id":3231,"date":"2005-04-16T19:28:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the-french-on-google.html"},"modified":"2005-04-16T19:28:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T19:28:52","slug":"the-french-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the-french-on-google.html","title":{"rendered":"The French on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">For some reason I smile when I hear that the French aren&#8217;t happy with Google. I don&#8217;t know why. Perhaps it is because they are complaining about it instead of developing a superior product. The French actually had a product that was essentially the internet decades early in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/video-is-the-minitel-star.html\">Minitel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When the French were unhappy with Boeing&#8217;s domination, they joined up with their fellow Euro-Zone allies and came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airbus.com\/prehome.asp\">Airbus<\/a> and thoroughly thrashed Boeing. Can the same thing happen to Google? Perhaps. I can see <country-region w:st=\"on\">China<\/country-region> and <place w:st=\"on\">Europe<\/place> working together to stop the unbelievable growth curve of the world&#8217;s leading search engine.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is certainly intriguing but I would bet on Microsoft before a new China\/Euro start up. If you are interested in a bit more on this topic as well as a Star Trek reference and an insult to Chirac in a single blog entry (I tell you it&#8217;s like getting to eat fries and dessert in the same meal), <a href=\"http:\/\/tim.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2005\/4\/15\/585527.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason I smile when I hear that the French aren&#8217;t happy with Google. I don&#8217;t know why. Perhaps it is because they are complaining about it instead of developing a superior product. The French actually had a product that was essentially the internet decades early in Minitel. When the French were unhappy with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}