Does Google’s global reach create “the risk of a crushing domination by America in the definition of the idea that future generations will have of the world?” The president of the Frnech National Library believes so. “Europe, he said, should counterattack by converting its own books into digital files and by controlling the page rankings of responses to searches. His one-man campaign bore fruit. At a meeting on March 16, President Jacques Chirac of France asked Mr. Jeanneney and the culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, to study how French and European library collections could be rapidly made available on the Web.”