Proprietary search engines

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 05:52:04 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 02:05 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 01:52 AM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
> >
> >     So why would the policy apply to the search box on
> >     http://start.fedoraproject.org , which is just meant for users and is
> >     not really a piece of infrastructure?
> >
> >     --
> >     Matt
> >
> >
> > Because some people are rather overzealous about stuff like that?
> >
> 
> Why should we use a search engine in "start.fedoraproject.org", we can 
> just put a nice page with useful information like: how users get help, 
> notification, etc ...;
> BTW firefox has search "built-in" (in the top right corner), Epiphany 
> too (address bar can be used as search box), I don't know about Konqueror.

Yeah, there really doesn't seem any particular reason for the search box
to be there, unless Google was paying us for it to be there or
something.
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