Switching our default search engine.

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Thu May 23 09:03:00 UTC 2013


On 05/23/2013 08:48 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:44 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I dont think anyone has missed Google's deprecation of various services like
>> code search,talk,reader, code download etc. and the move to personalized
>> searches, is not time for us to move to an alternative search engine like
>> duckduckgo as an default in our web browser and just be done with google
>> since it cant be trusted that the service it provides to our userbase will
>> not be there tomorrow,after a week an, an month,a year?
>
> This was discussed a while ago on this list, have you read the
> archives to get a history of the last discussion?

No I will look into the archives but I suspect since then Google has 
been deprecating a whole bunch of additional services it provided and 
probably implement personal search as well.
( which could be viewed as an addon to the discussion that has already 
taken place )


JBG



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