ploumJan 22

Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!

My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."

https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi

Why there’s no European Google?

Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Jan 22
@ploum This is a great article. The only thing I think you could improve is the title. I first interpreted it as meaning there is no good European web-search engine, which of course I now realise is not the point you were making. Maybe "Why there are no European tech billionaires"?
Show threadMatthias KampmannJan 22
@mike @ploum I fully agree your point of view, and I also stumbled upon this meaning. Btw. I would love to have Great Britain back in the EU. All of my friends from London and Wales share that opinion.
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕
@matthias @ploum You can add me to their number! But my sense that the EU is undertandably cautious about readmitted as country that's always one bad general election away from re-Brexiting.
Jan 22 at 8:16pmWeb
Show threadMatthias KampmannJan 22
@mike @ploum Well, it’s probably up to us to convince the sceptics. :) But maybe first we have to get rid of Nigel and Alice and Björn and all the other authoritarian „fellows“…