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Switch search from Google to DuckDuckGo or other
Hello :-) Is there are specific reason behind refering learnes to Google? Could a more lightweight search like https://duckduckgo.com/lite achieve pretty much the same outcome (keyword search, comparable to CTRL+F on /aio correct?), while being more privacy-friendly?
Is there are specific reason behind refering learnes to Google?
No.
Could a more lightweight search like https://duckduckgo.com/lite achieve pretty much the same outcome, while being more privacy-friendly?
Probably yes. But we will have contributors saying that the DuckDuckGo/Bingo/Yahoo! aren't as good for some reason.
Sphinx, the core tool used for Python documentation and behind ReadTheDocs, has it own Javascript based search that we could use. A quick look on Jekyll plugins returned https://github.com/daviddarnes/jekyll-search-js and https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search that could also be used except that GitHub Pages doesn't allow plugins which is one of the reasons that I really love for us to move to GitLab Pages.
@fmichonneau I think you should comment.
But we will have contributors saying that the DuckDuckGo/Bingo/Yahoo! aren't as good for some reason.
When searching the whole wide web, I agree.
[...] move to GitLab
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If the lessons refer to "google" instead of "search engine" in the text, I agree we should remove the mention to a brand to refer to a more generic term whenever possible.
As to the search engine we are using to look for something within our website or lessons, I think a proposal to switching to a javascript based solution could be something the infrastructure subcommittee could evaluate.
