2012/1/9 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, Hi mizmo > DuckDuckGo is an alternative to Google and Bing that, while not really > open source, uses open source components, donates 10% of their profits > to open source projects, and is of course built on free software: > > http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216390-open-source > I dont have a strong opinion on any of the two (goo vs ddg) and in general switching to ddg could be an improvement that should be done with some general precaution, but, since you brought this topic, what poped up from my mind was why not really use and promote something else different and really free and pushing the envelope on the web search arena. Why not question ourselves what is our Fedora users in their web searches looking for from start.fpo? To the point, is it too difficult to use YaCy [1] and Fedora peers to make start.fpo works? Everybody knows how to reach goo or ddg, etc, or use browser plugins, but none of them (afaik) align with our standings in FOSS better that YaCy (up to my knowledge, maybe there are other options too) Fedora peers/users could run their own crawlers and make this an interesting altetnative to use regular web search engines, and perhaps, more relevant results to our use base. I have to confess im not an expert on web search crawlers and so for search engines technologies, but was nicely surprised by YaCy and i am using daily for my searches in different ways and planning to run a permanent instance. Perhaps one simple plan for the future (F18?), is to have a localhost instance of YaCy and then use that as the default search engine for any browser we supply. Perhaps we can create our net-wise-search-engine (fedora specific web searches). Im a too crazy? [1] http://yacy.net/en/ -- Ing.Guillermo Gomez S. Fedora Board Member A4 http://gomix.fedora-ve.org http://www.neotechgw.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
