Hi all around, Le 20/03/2012 09:08, Xavier Brusselaers a écrit : > On 19/03/12 23:38, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I've been contacted by the DuckDuckGo folks few weeks ago. They would >> like us to replace in our web browser the default search engine, Google, >> by their search engine. Linux Mint did this recently and signed a >> contract with them. >> >> However, while I feel concerns about the huge power search engines have >> acquired in the digital world, and its misuse shifting more and more to >> the bad, the opportunity to sign with DuckDuckGo should be quietly >> evaluated. The goal is not to fund DDL with DuckDuckGo's revenues >> sharing but to provide children with the best desirable web experience: >> no ads, no robot spying at them, no personal information resold in their >> back. DuckDuckGo folks are perfectly aware and see no issue with hiding >> ads in their results pages, thus cutting their revenues down. Indeed >> this is a way for them to get a wider audience, which is good enough. >> >> In order to let you make your mind about the Internet search stakes and >> what alternatives we have, I prepared a short PDF document with all the >> information and thoughts I have on this topic. I hope you'll take the >> time to read it, try out several alternatives and be back with a >> motivated opinion :). If we would decide to go with them, the next >> stable release planned for June would be the first release with DDG on >> DDL! :p
> +1 ! :) Great news ! > > A+ > Xavier I allready gave my opinion to JMP, as a regular user of DuckDuckGo since april 2011 now (whouaou...;)) I have tested it on my (free) Android phone also. So +1 for DuckDuckGo, in waiting of a better alternative. Amicalement, --- Gk2 :-] _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
