On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:07:09AM +0100, trialero wrote: > > 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 owned wifi all over the world (was it a > bug or must-have feature for maps?). > > > > IMHO this is in contrast to the Fedora philosophy of Freedom. Fedora > repos do not include software with non-free licenses but links to a non > free search engine company the same time... > > > > any ideas? > > > > why not point to a more free alternative search engine like > duckduckgo.com? > > > The Fedora Board recently discussed duckduckgo. We found that duckduckgo > is > not more free (in terms of free software) than google. > > 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 > (which I see you are raising here, in the appropriate list :-) > > -Toshio > > -- > websites mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites > As for the website team view: Most of as prefer to get rid of start.fedoraproject.org entirely https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign -- -Elad Alfassa.
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