On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Kévin Raymond <shai...@fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This is an old thread, we have not decided anything because:
> - Alternatives are not 100% Open Source
> - Users like the Google results.
>
> I haven't checked about seeks update, but nowadays we could use
> https://startpage.com/ which is search engine based on Google (it just
> forward queries), but protecting our privacy. It uses Bing for
> pictures and blinkx.com for movies.
>
> http://duckduckgo.com/ Is by far the most interesting search engine,
> and using the bang! syntax (!sp) we could ask DDG to give us startpage
> results (i.e. Google!).
>
> We are a leading edge community,
> we are not simple users,
> we should change start.fpo, and see with our browsers maintainer if
> they want to switch.
>
> Of course, this is only my voice, what about you?
>
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My opinion is that we should drop start.fedoraproject.org entirely. See
discussion here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign

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