Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:41:45 -0500 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dani=C3=ABl?= de Kok <me@danieldk.eu> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <86r3awnh1i.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Daniël de Kok writes: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:14:26PM +0000, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> OK, but where is that history kept, & how do they associate past & current >> searches ? > > I think that there are two possibilities: > > 1. You see a correlation that does not really exist - Google is just > suggesting probably completions of a query, and other people search > similar things as you do. That would absolutely be it, since (a) Google and Mozilla are competitors (and therefore Google won't be getting anything from Firefox); and (b) Mozilla switched Firefox's default search engine to Yahoo nearly two years ago, out of concern for users' privacy. The "suggestions" Firefox offers to show you are in-browser completions similar to those used by every search engine out there: start typing, and common/popular searches logged with the search engine are shown in a drop-down completion box. Only these suggestions are instead fetched from the default search engine and shown in the URL/Search bar, in the same way bookmarks and open tabs are. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
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