search engine on start.fpo

[Christopher Meng]

I think that we shouldn't ignore user's choice.
On Apr 25, 2012 10:23 PM, "Richard E. van der Luit" <
nippur at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> > This is an old thread, we have not decided anything because:
> > - Alternatives are not 100% Open Source
> > - Users like the Google results.
> >
>
> Google nowadays is so not linux, i can't believe this is even
> considered. What is 'free' about Google in the sense of our community
> (sinds people are paying heavily for 'free' service with big chunks of
> their sellable privacy, even 'not for money' isn't true), how valid is
> the argument "Users like the Google results."? O-m-g.
>
>
>
> > I haven't checked about seeks update, but nowadays we could use
> > https://startpage.com/ which is search engine based on Google (it just
> > forward queries), but protecting our privacy. It uses Bing for
> > pictures and blinkx.com for movies.
>
> >
> > http://duckduckgo.com/ Is by far the most interesting search engine,
> > and using the bang! syntax (!sp) we could ask DDG to give us startpage
> > results (i.e. Google!).
>
> ++1
>
> >
> > We are a leading edge community,
> > we are not simple users,
> > we should change start.fpo, and see with our browsers maintainer if
> > they want to switch.
> >
> > Of course, this is only my voice, what about you?
> >
>
> really,
>
> Richard
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