6 Mar
2012
6 Mar
'12
2:09 a.m.
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