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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Is there any reason keeping ask.com as firefox's default search engine?</H1>
<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<I>Sat Feb 19 14:53:33 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:14:17 +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
><i> 2011/2/18 Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>>:
</I>>><i> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 11:49 +0100, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
</I>>>><i> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:23, Funda Wang <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">fundawang at gmail.com</A>>
</I>>>><i> wrote:
</I>>>><i> > Hello,
</I>>>><i> >
</I>>>><i> > I couldn't have time installing alpha now, but I've found that we
</I>>>><i> > still promote ask.com as default search engine of firefox, and
</I>>>><i> other
</I>>>><i> > additional search engines such as jamendo.
</I>>>><i> >
</I>>>><i> > I think mageia has nothing todo with above search engine.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Yes there is no reason
</I>>>><i> What should be decided is if Mageia switches back to default search
</I>>>><i> engine or selects another one for whatever reason
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Following upstream seems to be the safer solution for the moment.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> ( even if I would not be against promoting alternative solutions ).
</I>><i> Agreed. But the reason of promoting ask.com as default search engine,
</I>><i> is that they have an agreement with Mandriva the company. So...
</I>
When speaking of alternatives, I was more thinking of distributed one
like
yacy, seeks, majestic12 rather than others commercials one.
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Michael Scherer
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