Understatement of the year

France gets EU loot to go ahead and build the "European" search engine Quaero, which has been revealed to be a shill for Thomson's IPTV and other TV-on-demand gigs. After Chiraq's bluster and the frequent preening by his various stooges, we learn that this grand European project was really just a shallow Franco-French gimmick to prop up sales for strategic yogurt production.