On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard E. van der Luit <nippur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Ok, I should have written "Users know the Google results, and they like what they know". I know that Google is not Open. This discussion as also been raised at the Board, the result was: - We choose what we want for start.fpo - Browsers maintainers choose what they want in their packages. > >> 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 -- Kévin Raymond (shaiton) GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2 -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
