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Escargot? Oui. Google? Sacre Bleu

A relationship marked by lows such as Freedom Fries and EuroDisney would seem to have no room to go any lower. And yet: When U.S.-based Google announced plans in December to undertake the cost of digitizing the world's books and making them searchable to the public for free, France called foul, with the country's top librarian complaining loudly of yet another example of "crushing American domination."

Read the whole story at Wired, May 11, 2005 »

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