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Include search engines that support free software and privacy  
Written by gQuigs the 9 Jun 11 at 04:17. Won't implement
Currently Ubuntu provides the default Firefox search engines. It makes sense to be more strategic about who we give search engine real estate to. We are promoting them, by providing them by default.

At the very least we could get ride of Bing, a direct competitor and the key company behind bug #1. Others might be good to remove in the future as well.
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Solution #1: Provide Duck Duck Go instead of Bing
Written by gQuigs the 9 Jun 11 at 04:17.
Duck Duck Go is a great search engine that is very powerful. It also respects your privacy (http://donttrack.us/).

From the FAQ - Is DDG open source?
Some of it. It's also largely built with "FOSS". We also give 10% of our income to FOSS. Check out this years donations.
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-architecture.html
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-foss-tithing-moveme nt.html

Please give it a try at http://duckduckgo.com.
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Solution #2: Instead of promoting any one, and given option of selecting during first startup
Written by benoyanthony the 8 Oct 11 at 12:26.
Instead of promoting anyone , we can give user an option to select from some 10 or more search engine, during his first starup of the browser

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 29 Mar 12 at 20:58) >>