[haiku-development] Re: Should the default WebPositive search engine be replaced?
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:21:18 +0000
12 octobre 2020 17:46 "Panagiotis Vasilopoulos" <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
Although Google is the most widely used browser in the world,
privacy-related concerns may be a good reason to look for a replacement.
Apart from GSoC, it's not like Google pays huge sums of money that
support development, in exchange for their service to be the default
search engine. Something like DuckDuckGo and startpage could work-- both
of these provide context-based advertisements. (The latter is also
included in Pale Moon as a default search engine). If privacy isn't a
big enough concern, maybe it'd be best to just replace Google in
jurisdictions where it's banned or heavily restricted with an
alternative that may be more viable to the user.
The main reason we're using Google is good support for searching in several
languages
(at least latin alphabet based ones). I don't know how well other search
engines are
doing currently. It seems duckduckgo at least has a French landing page now
(that's the
one I can easily test here). So, yes, maybe we should switch to that. How is it
doing
in other languages?
Privacy aside, Google is losing features over time (no way to see or copy the
URL of
things you search, no way to download images from an image search, etc) and
isn't even
as good at user experience as it used to be. And their search system trying to
fix supposed
typos in my search terms (replacing "BeOS" with "Bros" is a classical one for
me...) is
quite annoying.
The money Google Open Source Programs Office gives us is not tied to us using
the search
engine that happens to be developped by the same company. So there's no problem
from that
side in using something else. There is in fact a search engine that does give
us money from
user searches, that's goodsearch. Unfortunately it's only available in english,
and search
results weren't that good when I last used it.
--
Adrien.
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