With all the recent publicity concerning privacy concerns with current search provider policy changes, it would be nice to update the default list of default search providers in Konqueror to provide users a broader ranger of choices to meet a wider range of privacy infringement tolerance....
It should be a relatively simple task since most providers publish a url scheme to use in forming queries. The tricky part is coming up with a list that users will want and use. If you have a favorite - reply and let the list know. I'll look into where they go in the code. Recently Calvin suggested startpage and it has been good. What are some of the others you like?
Startpage AltaVista (already available) DogPile ? ....
I have the following search engines in Firefox:
amazondotcom answers askjeeves creativecommons dictionarycom duck_duck_go duck_duck_go_ssl eBay google google_ssl imdb ixquick-ssl ixquick newegg scroogle-ssl scroogle webster wikipedia yahoo
If Konqueror uses the same xml file format for search engines, then just grab those from Firefox, modify as necessary and be done.
Something like this is not a code-critical change and (unless Tim objects) I can push the changes to GIT. But somebody needs to test the final package and vouch that each search engine actually works before I'll do that. :)
Darrell