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

Sat Feb 19 14:58:28 CET 2011

On 19 February 2011 13:53, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+>
+
+I'm meant to be getting dooble, a new browser a d yacy working
+together in a rpm, the upstreams people who develop yacy seem to work
+with it on dooble.
+
+As for Jamendo, it would be nice to keep that and its a useful site.
+
+Donald
+