Google Could Lose Default Search Engine Status on iPhone

Re:Google Could Lose Default Search Engine Status on iPhone by malandrew on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @06:19PM (#3700649)

It would be nice if DuckDuckGo were listed among the search engines on "Settings > Safari > Search Engine"

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Re:Google Could Lose Default Search Engine Status on iPhone by rbarooah on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @07:03PM (#3700771)

Or at the very least if there was a way to switch to an opensearch site as the default.

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Re:Google Could Lose Default Search Engine Status on iPhone by 178 on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @08:19PM (#3701054)

if jailbroken, do

  echo -e "# Redirect Yahoo to DuckDuckGo (for Safari Prefs) \n46.51.197.88    search.yahoo.com" | cat >> /etc/hosts

Then choose Yahoo!, obviously.

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Re:Google Could Lose Default Search Engine Status on iPhone by carlesfe on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @04:41AM (#3702287)

Really? As a geek and out of curiosity, I've tried to force myself to use it for a whole day to test its results, and gosh, they are really bad.

I know the difficulty to make a web search engine, and I appreciate DDG's effort on privacy, but as a customer, there is no way I would change Google for anything, not even Bing or Yahoo! They... they suck.

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