Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-04-25 Thread Kévin Raymond
My opinion is that we should drop start.fedoraproject.org entirely. See discussion here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign start.fpo is useful and used by many users (Mairin gave us some stats about her blog). -- Kévin Raymond (shaiton) GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2 -- websites mailing

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-04-25 Thread Elad Alfassa
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Kévin Raymond shai...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: Hi there, This is an old thread, we have not decided anything because: - Alternatives are not 100% Open Source - Users like the Google results. I haven't checked about seeks update, but nowadays we could use

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-04-25 Thread Elad Alfassa
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Kévin Raymond shai...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: My opinion is that we should drop start.fedoraproject.org entirely. See discussion here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign start.fpo is useful and used by many users (Mairin gave us some stats

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-03 Thread Richard E. van der Luit
: Contents of websites digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org (Máirín Duffy) 2. Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org (Sijis Aviles) 3. Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org (Elad Alfassa) 4. Re: [Fedora Infrastructure] #3108: Fedora websites

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-02 Thread Kévin Raymond
It does have a privacy policy that is more stringent about the data that duckduckgo keeps than the data that google keeps, though.  With no current open source search engine, the Board decided that the website team could decide for itself what search technology to use to implement start.fp.o

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-02 Thread Digvijay Patankar
@team, we spoke about redesigning start.fpo, don't know where we are. But we could change the default search engine to duckduckgo, and add a discrete box like: Don't like the default search engine? Join us and contribute to a new feature, called Select the default search engine during the

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-02 Thread trialero
http://search.yacy.net/ interesting option but yacy claims space on the installed system. IMHO the start.fdo provides (should provide?) just an option to search around. yacy maybe something to add to the fedora repo. //meine -- websites mailing list websites@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-02 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Kévin Raymond shai...@fedoraproject.org wrote: It does have a privacy policy that is more stringent about the data that duckduckgo keeps than the data that google keeps, though.  With

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-02 Thread Sijis Aviles
2012/2/2 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:33 -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: I totally understand redesigning, but not understanding the dropping of the page - what would be a reasonable replacement? The rationale is that when people open up a web browser,

Re: google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-02 Thread Elad Alfassa
2012/2/2 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:33 -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: I totally understand redesigning, but not understanding the dropping of the page - what would be a reasonable replacement? The rationale is that when people open up a web browser,

google search on start.fedoraproject.org

2012-02-01 Thread trialero
hi, I wonder why google is the search engine used on the default browser start page start.fedoraproject.org. following the news there are frequent messages about google being not so free, tracking your searches, combining your data without opt-out, stealing mail and passwords from privately