Re: [Epiphany] Re: "I feel lucky" preference on Address bar

[Edd Dumbill <edd usefulinc com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 00:31, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> I fully agree that a pref here is overkill. It seems that the arguments 
> presented here focus more on people's dislike of the default, and would find 
> google search more useful (and so instead of asking us to change the 
> default, in true open source fashion they ask for a pref). I have to admit 
> to being somewhat perplexed as it seems that most of the users who are 
> complaining are those who would be most likely to use a bookmarks toolbar 
> which includes a default google search smartbookmark. 

Seems to me that the problem is that Google's "lucky" search doesn't
work right first time often enough for some people's tastes.  For me, a
huge improvement would be if it just did a normal Google search, letting
me decide how lucky I feel.

I actually see little harm in maintaining this as a pref, and I even see
constructive use cases beyond those discussed yet --  you could even say
it was a feature that, say, corporate desktops could use: the default
search being one for the company intranet.  Schools could use it
similarly to go to a "safe" search, or one within the campus intranet.

-- Edd

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