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France questions google library plans
Feb 19, 2005 8:37 AM

France's national library sees serious problems with plans by Google to put books from some of the world's great libraries on the Internet. 

Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France's national library and is a noted historian, says Google's choice of works is likely to favour Anglo-Saxon ideas and the English language. 

He wants the European Union to balance this with its own programme and its own Internet search engines. 

Jean-Noel Jeanneney says he is not anti-American, but he says like French President Jacques Chirac, he wants a world in which US views are not the only  ones that are heard. 

Source: RNZ
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