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Google executives and Taiwan government officials launch the Google data center in Changhua, Taiwan, in 2013. In 2005, the French and German governments announced they would spend EUR450 million ($700 million) over five years to develop a search engine, Quaero, that would be a European competitor to Google. "It's not just a matter of privacy and control, but one of national security."Ĭould a country build its own search engine? With enough money, would it be any good? Estimating the costĪs Google was becoming increasingly dominant in the mid-noughties, several countries tried to build their own search engines. "Australia definitely needs to nationalise the important resource of search," Gigablast's Matt Wells said.

The era of the giant all-conquering search engines, they hope, is drawing to an end. They point to growing government concern about Google's monopoly - in Australia, Europe and the US. The idea was generally met with mockery and polite head-scratching.īut among a small international circle of search engine experts and outsiders, the mere mention of this idea in Australia was a big deal. With Google threatening to pull out of Australia over proposed world-first legislation forcing it to pay for news, the Greens Party recently suggested we could develop a publicly funded search engine as an alternative. The racks of servers at Gigablast's Albuquerque data centre.