Google Earth rival crashes on launch cheap 22 chrome rims and tires
After the embarrassing crash of France’s rival to Google Earth when President Jacques Chirac clicked to launch it, the Geoportail.fr site is up and running. The site that allows Internet users to view the Earth is a pet project of Chirac, who resents the Anglo-Saxon dominance of such tools, The Times of London reported. Ten days ago, as the French president clicked to launch the site, it crashed. Once up again, it struggled to keep up with 20 million attempted hits in the first three days. Now,
it is averaging 500,000 hits a day, the newspaper said. Users have noted the $8.8 million project has blurred out scores of sites in France the government considers
sensitive, including Chirac’s country home. However, most of what Geoportail blocks out is viewable on Google Earth, the Times said. Meanwhile, another of Chirac’s
pet projects has been launched — a French international 24-hour news network to present a Gallic view of the world to offset the “Anglo-Saxon slant” of CNN and the
BBC.
