Proprietary search engines (was: Fedora Notifications System.)

[Manuel Escudero]

2010/8/29 Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net>

> On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:13 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > > 3) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in
> http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one?
> > > NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a "Fedora Solution" an
> applied search engine for the community. and I can
> > > add as many collaborators as I want, I can share my code, I can Modify
> it, it's more "opensource" that the one that we're already using...
> > >
> >
> > Just to make this clear on 3).  We grandfathered that in, meaning it is
> > now against policy to do more of it but we didn't remove it because it
> > had historical significance.  Though I believe we're in the works to
> > replace the start page with something else.
>
> Interesting.  I can understand not wanting to promote a proprietary
> search engine on the Fedora start page, but if the idea is that Fedora
> users and contributors should be able to avoid using them altogether, I
> think that's currently pretty unrealistic.  People have questions all
> the time, and being able to search the whole web for an answer at once
> is great.  Without a web search, one has to do a separate search of each
> data source (wiki, bug database, mailing lists) of each relevant
> project, assuming those search features even exist and that it is
> possible to identify all the relevant projects in advance (harder when
> searching for work to reuse).
>
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AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... With "Fedora's engine" I'm giving you the
chance of having something more "opensource" and also more specific and
useful for the fedora users who want to search things all around the web.

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