Japan plans its own search engine to take on Google

Japan plans its own search engine to take on Google

It is interesting to see how certain Asian countries are launching their own efforts to prevent the domination of tech giants in their regions. China decided to work on its own DVD format to save its manufacturers from paying royalties to groups like Sony and Toshiba in the future. And now Japan has announced its own search engine project to take on Google!

The latest news in claims that the Japan’s government along with high-tech firms and universities will team up to develop their own Internet search technology. Internet searching has become a very lucrative field in the market with companies like Google showing that it can be awesomely profitable and strengthening.

A study group has been setup that would meet this month with participation from more than 20 companies and universities. This would include representatives from Matsushita Electric Industrial, Hitachi, NEC, and Fujitsu as well as telecom carrier Nippon Telegraph, Telephone, and public broadcaster NHK.

An official from the trade ministry said in a statement: “Information searches have become a source of wealth. We want to consider what Japanese companies can do in the current situation where overseas forces are dominant. Japanese companies should have competitive power.

The group aims to setup the outlines of the project by around July next year and it would have budgets in the range of several billion yen.