PARIS 'When Google challenges Europe." Overnight, the headline in the daily Le Monde turned the popular search engine into a new villain.
The writer was Jean-Noël Jeanneney, head of the French National Library, a historian and highly respected figure in the cultural establishment. What he called for was no less than the first culture war in cyberspace.
He was reacting to the announcement by Google last December of an agreement with five major libraries to digitize 15 million books and make them accessible online. While this seemed like progress for mankind, Jeanneney wrote, it also carried the "risk of a crushing domination by America in the definition of the idea that future generations will have of the world." --Fulltext
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