[Lugos-mozilla] Re: Slovenian search engine's, help please

[Joze Klepec]

Glejte prilogo. Toliko v razjasnitev.

lp, Jože

On Tuesday 01 of May 2007 10:16:11 Brian King wrote:
> FYI .. Please feel free to give your thoughts in the bug...
>
> Michal Berman wrote:
> > Hello Brian,
> >
> > I am pleased to meet you. My nickname is Mic (and on IRC too) and I'm
> > on the L10n-drivers team for Mozilla. I work on localization with
> > Axel and Choffman, et al and Axel suggested I ping you about a bug
> > we're working on that I need some additional perspective on. The bug
> > is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375198
> >
> > This is an important bug because to us, because, in a way it sets a
> > precedence for all international locales that may want to change
> > their search plug ins and in particular the search plug in order. To
> > me it should help us answer the question what is the purpose of the
> > primary search plug in for other-than-English locales. Google is
> > primary for many reasons including the belief that it provides the
> > best search experience i.e., the most comprehensive and relevant
> > results (and Yahoo for that reason as well). Our internal debate has
> > been do non-english speaking users want the most comprehensive
> > results including those not in their native language or is native
> > language the primary driver of results that are deemed more useful by
> > the user.
> >
> > Would you mind taking a look at the bug and giving me your thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Thanks very much, Mic


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Hi all,

To go straight to the point:

User should _freely_ choose which search engine with which capabilities is available:
1. Default.
2. Default advanced search.
3. Meta search (=use multiple search engines, i.e. Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, Msn, ...). AFAIK, there are more then 2000 realy good local SE on the world,
4. Advanced meta search.
5. User search (for instance, <http://www.google.com/webhp=en>.
6. Advanced user meta search - as meta search plus additional user options to narrow search as you might get bloated.

Such piece of code could be written in Javascript and applies to _any_ localization of FF.

As Firefox user and sworn Googler I normally don't use default search <http://www.google.si/> - which is setup by IP lookup and iritates me very badly (as it looks for results too close Slovenia). Instead of this I normally use <http://www.google.com/webhp=en> as a more objective search engine. And by default I switch off search engine updating as I really hate it.
 
And which one of the legendary search engines I liked the most since 1998?

AltaVista in Slovenian version, of course - it was my first search engine after Mat'Kurja and Slowwwenia back in 1998 after I met with the Internet. If someone of CEOs at AltaVista is reading this, they should know it's still highly popular in Slovenia as it means the legend of the Internet around here. Google is only the best available replica, SloVista <www.slovista.net> doesn't count as it is dead now... . 

Raziskovalec <www.raziskovalec.com> is Slovenian local administration search.

Cheers, Jože