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Idea #28078: Include search engines that support free software and privacy

bug This idea was marked as being not considered for implementation the 31 October 11.
Written by gQuigs the 9 Jun 11 at 04:17. Related project: Firefox. Status: Won't implement
Rationale
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

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 12 Jun 11 at 08:31
Have you suggested DDG to Mozilla? (They have a revenue relationship with Google)

Have you suggested DDG to the Ubuntu Mozilla Team?
Have you reseached the other browsers in Ubuntu, and suggested DDG to each one?

Have you learned how to create a patch, and offered to create a patch to add DDG to each browser? Or submitted a patch to each upstream project?

Which of these do you need help with?

gQuigs wrote on the 17 Jun 11 at 03:08
Yes to Mozilla (http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/topics/include_duck_duck_go_as_option_by_de fault_in_search_box)
They've basically said no.

I was hoping to build support before I just started contacting teams, but I can totally do both :). It seems more of a policy decision than anything else, hence why I wanted support.

I guess a patch would just be putting the Duck Duck Go Open Search plugin into /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/. I should be able to do that.

Mithrandir wrote on the 18 Jun 11 at 23:23
I should point out that Trisquel (Ubuntu based distro) has made DDG the default search engine. It is also the default engine in Midori and in the default list in GNU Icecat. Full list at https://www.duckduckgo.com/tools.html

ester4 wrote on the 21 Jun 11 at 19:29
DuckDuckGo is pretty great. I use it now instead of Google.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 31 Oct 11 at 22:03
Unfortunately, this idea was not selected for review by the Ubuntu Technical Board in Sept 2011. Closing in Brainstorm.


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