[Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?

Michael Scherer misc at zarb.org
Sat Feb 19 14:53:33 CET 2011


 On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:14:17 +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
> 2011/2/18 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
>> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
>>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang <fundawang at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we
>>> > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and 
>>> other
>>> > additional search engines such as jamendo.
>>> >
>>> > I think mageia has nothing todo with above search engine.
>>>
>>> Yes there is no reason
>>> What should be decided is if Mageia switches back to default search
>>> engine or selects another one for whatever reason
>>
>> Following upstream seems to be the safer solution for the moment.
>>
>> ( even if I would not be against promoting alternative solutions ).
> Agreed. But the reason of promoting ask.com as default search engine,
> is that they have an agreement with Mandriva the company. So...

 When speaking of alternatives, I was more thinking of distributed one 
 like
 yacy, seeks, majestic12 rather than others commercials one.

-- 
 Michael Scherer



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