Dump Google?

[Martin Albisetti]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Jordan <jordanhewi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu Developers,
>
> I'm not sure if I'm the first person to suggest this, but lately
> Google's reputation has diminished, especially with talk of them being
> Big Brother (yes, I know what server my email's on).  Why not drop
> Google and go for a more private search engine?
>
> I know of a few underdogs such as Startpage and Yauba (I know of one
> more whose name I forgot...they have plans for an email system).
> Probably they would be happy to form an alliance with Ubuntu.
>
> I'm thinking large-picture here.  Ubuntu's main attraction is it's
> security and privacy (not requiring users to register, for instance).
> With the technology news on Google and large search engines, I think we
> should jump on the band wagon to avoid Google. What do you say?

I don't think Ubuntu's main attraction is security and privacy.
It's important to many of us on this list, but hardly the reason we've
got millions of users.


-- 
Martin