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Re: [tor-bugs] #4902 [Tor Browser]: Change the default search engine in TBB
#4902: Change the default search engine in TBB
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Reporter: phobos | Owner: mikeperry
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: normal | Milestone: TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable
Component: Tor Browser | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
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Comment(by joebt):
There may be a couple reasons to also add Ixquick https search in addition
to DuckDuckGo & StartPage.
DDG is sometimes referred to as a "hybrid" search engine, while Ixquick is
called a metacrawler (what's in a name?). So, they're going to produce
different results because of different sources. They did in my brief
comparisons.
Another nice feature (to me) is, both Ixquick & Startpage allow making
numerous search settings changes, then saving those __in a cookie__, OR...
saving the changes as a __readable or obfuscated URL__, containing the
changes. To make it even easier for users to use their custom search
settings, they can '__Install Custom Plugin'__ after creating the custom
settings URL, that installs as any other search plugin. Or save the
custom URL as a bookmark.
Several custom search settings bookmarks can be created. Haven't tested
creating multiple Ixquick / !StartPage custom search plugins.
AFAIK, DDG doesn't have the ability to __automatically__ generate the
custom URL or create a plugin (at all) containing the custom settings.
DDG users (apparently) have to choose their own custom URL parameters
(__typing or coping__) from this list, which is time consuming:
!http://duckduckgo.com/params.html
I don't find where DDG allows setting # of results per page. Some also
don't want to keep up with or save cookies in TBB, so having the
customized search plugin is a good feature, IMO.
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