Partnership with DuckDuckGo?

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 10 00:28:36 UTC 2012


Am Montag, den 09.01.2012, 18:31 -0500 schrieb Máirín Duffy:

> I don't know if shipping with DuckDuckGo configured in our browsers by
> default is a good idea or not, but it would be nice if we could ship
> with it as an option. 

Hi Mizmo,

it's already the default search engine in Midori, not only for the
reasons you mentioned in your mail but also because it really gives good
search results.

> At least for Firefox, there's already a search
> engine plugin written for it. 

Should work with other browsers, too as they support Sherlock &
OpenSearch nowadays.

> Certainly their stances on user privacy seem more in-line with our own.

+1

> We've also fielded some criticism I think for using Google as the
> start.fedoraproject.org search engine. DuckDuckGo might be a friendlier
> alternative for start.fpo.

+1

Kind regards,
Christoph




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