On 08/14/2015 11:40 AM, Icarious wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:10:17 -0400 > Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 08/13/2015 10:02 PM, Icarious wrote: >>>> hey, i've been using searx[^0] for a few weeks and it works really well >>>> (at least the quadrature du net's instance[^1]). given that it's free >>>> software[^2] i'm propposing to make it the default search engine, >>>> instead of duckduckgo or whatever we have nowadays. >>>> >>>> i believe we already have it on our search engines, it'd just be a >>>> matter of making it the default. >>>> >>>> what do you think? >>> +1. Although I don't know why other searx instances don't work for you :S. >>> Anyways, we should make it the default given the server side code is free >>> for anyone to run. >>> >> I think this is a good idea as well, but suggest hosting our own node. >> In this way we could harden it a bit more than the current one. e.g. >> Default to DDG/StartPage/IXQuick, force image proxy instead of linking >> to Bing/Google Images (which track IP), and use CACert for HTTPS over nginx. >> >> I may be able to provide a host for one if this is deemed a good idea, I >> was actually experimenting with Searx a few weeks back already and it's >> not too difficult to deploy. >> >> > > +1. I think its a good idea. Using Google / Bing makes no sense cause the > searx node can simply use startpage/ ixquick for such searches offering a > double layer of proxy. +1 for image proxy and CACert with High Grade HTTPS + > PFS over nginx. We already include CaCert with our distribution so if it is > technologically feasible (space + bandwidth), we could simply setup our own > pod and make icecat/ iceweasel default to it : ). > >
I added searx as the default search engine to iceweasel-1:40.0.deb1-2 [0] [0]:https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/commit/?id=563db00ef970e5793bd0f709ddb77607b368bc06
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