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Bug 675914 - Privacy: Search should not use network services (Wikipedia, Google) by default
Privacy: Search should not use network services (Wikipedia, Google) by default
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 670168
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-11 22:52 UTC by W. Martin Borgert
Modified: 2012-05-12 08:40 UTC
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Description W. Martin Borgert 2012-05-11 22:52:40 UTC 
GNOME3 features a nice search dialogue in the upper right corner of the screen. One can easily search applications to run, so I'm happy with it. I have, however, a privacy concern, because the search function uses by default e.g. Wikipedia or Google to search whatever I entered. This would be OK, if there would be a dialogue to confirm, such as "couldn't find locally what you are looking for, may I try Wikipedia/Google/whatever?" Maybe there are other ideas, how to solve it, but in any case the default should be not to use network services unexpectedly.
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-05-12 08:27:22 UTC 
Actually, the Web search is going to be removed, which kind of fixes the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 670168 ***
Comment 2 W. Martin Borgert 2012-05-12 08:40:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually, the Web search is going to be removed, which kind of fixes the
> problem.

Indeed, after reading the comments there, this sounds like the best solution. Thanks for pointing me to the correct bug report!