Europeana - Hitler and porn.

[CookieMonster]

It seems the EU's €250m Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections was a bit of a flop when launched earlier this week.

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ now informa us:

The Europeana site is temporarily not accessible due to overwhelming interest after its launch (10 million hits per hour).

We are doing our utmost to reopen Europeana in a more robust version as soon as possible.

We will be back by mid-December.

According to The Sexiest Search Engine - EURSOC - News and comment from Europe

When your correspondent logged in at www.europeana.org, the images featured a photograph of a shapely female rear (from a Levis Jeans advertisement), a couple in flagrante (helpfully labelled le cinéma porno) and a cartoon of Adolph Hitler (so much for European unity)

And the site went tits up (excuse the pun) soon after the launch.

Costing €250m and taking for years to develop it was intended to demonstrate to the world the glories of European technology and to rival google...

[jfk2008]

A technical failure perhaps, but 10 million hits per hour means it's pretty popular.

[CookieMonster]

A technical failure perhaps, but 10 million hits per hour means it's pretty popular.

I bet half of that was there to see the minge.

And it seems it was pretty popular, until it broke.

[Christine Murray]

tut! a lot of european sites are managed by women. i must add in the links.

[CookieMonster]

tut! a lot of european sites are managed by women. i must add in the links.

But do those sites work or cost €250m?

[Christine Murray]

O they work.

[toxic avenger]

I bet half of that was there to see the minge.

I've never heard Adolf Hitler described quite that way before...

[CookieMonster]

I've never heard Adolf Hitler described quite that way before...

Ah sure wasn't he know as Adolf "bearded clam" Hitler in school.

[jfk2008]

I bet half of that was there to see the minge.

And it seems it was pretty popular, until it broke.

The minge broke???? I guess 10 million hits per hour...

[draiocht23]

I bet half of that was there to see the minge.

And it seems it was pretty popular, until it broke.

I can imagine the furious instant message activity among the depraved - "quick, log onto this EU website, it's filthy" etc etc

Hmm