Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Default Search Engine

[Narcis Garcia]

MetaGer still has the problem of prioritizing german results.

Example: Select language "español" (=spanish) and search the word
Madrid. Most results are in german, when first ones should be in spanish.
Another example: Select language "español" (=spanish) and search the
word Lleida (in catalan). Most results are in german, when first ones
should be in catalan.

This is not useful for me to set many people MetaGer as default search
engine.


El 28/01/18 a les 13:08, Jens Korte ha escrit:
> Hi
> 
> I recommend https://metager.de/en or the developer version
> https://metager3.de/en . The SuMa e.V., a non-commercial
> german organisation (gemeinnütziger, eingetragener Verein [1]) runs and
> develops the search-engine. The source is available under the terms of
> AGPL3 [2].
> 
> 
> Greets
> 
> Jens Korte
> 
> [1] https://suma-ev.de/
> [2] https://gitlab.metager3.de/
> 
> Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:38:35 +0100
> schrieb Marco van Hulten <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Hello—
>>
>> When I installed IceCat on Parabola, I got the privacy conscious La
>> Quadrature as the default default search engine*.  When I installed
>> IceCat on GuixSD, I got Google as the default default search engine.
>>
>> What is the upstream default search engine?
>>
>> Should GNU distributions set this themselves?
>>
>> If the latter is the case, it would still be a good idea if the
>> upstream default default search engine were a privacy conscious
>> search engine.
>>
>>
>> Related to this issue, a bit of browsing through the files at
>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ ** shows that the Google search
>> engine was removed in icecat-31.2.0 but not anymore in icecat-52.0.2.
>> That is probably fine (and discussed before on this mailinglist), but
>> the default should not fall back to Google.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> —Marco
>>
>> * With this I mean the default search engine that is selected when
>>   IceCat is first start, i.e. there is no ~/.mozilla/ when starting
>>   IceCat.
>> ** These appear builds, not source code as mentioned elsewhere
>>   
>> (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265828/cant-find-gnu-icecat-or-firefox-source-code)
>>
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>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
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