The French satirical newspaper "Le Canard enchaîné" pointed out that the funding behind the project was dwarfed by both Microsoft and Google. Search experts Autonomy, ("Financial Times") called the plan "a blatant case of misguided and unnecessary nationalism". The main issues being that: by the time of Quaero's launch, the search engine market would already have been generations ahead of Quaero in media and device capabilities; some argue that Chirac was more interested in defending French pride than global advancement of the Internet.