The BBC stops trying to be(at) Google The BBC has been at it for more than four years already. But the time invested is now officially all a waste of time and money. The BBC has decided to stop trying to build the search engine that would beat Google. The decision was made after the BBC Trust told the BBC to ‘reconsider’. The service was already removed from the homepage last year. Now its completely removed. The BBC Trust ensures the high quality standards at the BBC. It acts as an independent body within the BBC. The Trust has got twelve members who were all appointed by the Queen of England. The Trust feels the BBC search engine would only be a ‘poor imitation’ of the major search engines. The BBC will now focus again on improving its internal website search engine. It thinks that will service the British and international audience a lot better. Seetha Kumar, a BBC online controller puts it like this: "You cannot help but come to the conclusion that BBC web search was not sufficiently different in quality or character from others like Google or MSN to justify the time and money spent maintaining it.” CommentGoogle Offers Clearer Search Lab...0 comments  After an investigation by the European Commission in to whether or not Google unfairly promoted its services, the search giant has decided to make changes to how it di...... read more
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Comments (2)
What annoys me with this is that the BBC is clearly funded by the British taxpayer via the TV Licence. I am so glad (not) that they can waste time and money on nonsense of this kind when in fact they should concentrate on their core business....
Ma 2 feb 2009, 10:21
Not really about BBC stopping the development of their own search engine. But I seriously believe that every company that starts developping a search engine with the mission to beat Google will fail.
Ma 2 feb 2009, 11:11