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Issue created Apr 23, 2020 by sajolida@sajolidaMaintainer18 of 18 checklist items completed18/18 checklist items

Use DuckDuckGo for search queries on our website

It’s been discussed a bit on #9900 (closed) but this was years ago and we haven’t improve our internal search in the meantime.

I want to:

  • Compare the quality of the results of both on common search queries.
  • Check for possible changes on the DuckDuckGo technology/policy (and maybe ask them a favor).
  • Lead the discussion on whether we are ok with sharing our users searches with DuckDuckGo.
    • I pointed tails-summit@ here. 2 weeks later, everybody has been in favor of the change.
  • Check whether we could still collect data from search queries for UX.
    • This will likely add an HTTP glitch to users, so let's work on this only the next time we'll analyze search queries
  • Switch to DuckDuckGo (!498 (merged))
  • Get sysadmins to disable the ikiwiki search plugin on the production website
  • Ask sysadmins to check whether there's still any reason to keep the cgi support enabled or if our website can finally be fully static
  • Triage related tickets
  • Translate the placeholder
    • Ask on tails-l10n
    • Ping
    • Fallback on Google Translate
    • German
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
Edited Jan 12, 2022 by sajolida
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