IMO. Any none-newbie Linux users would deny baidu as default search engine.

Why baidu is not acceptable? For few reasons listed below,

1. It is EVIL. must see the followings.
2. Nearly everything it do are EVIL. It have all google products/relative
clones without considering others IP, and allow people to copy then reserved
the copyright of those belong to others ( like baidu baike
http://baike.baidu.com/ have its basement articles ripped off wikipedia)
3. It taught people to be EVIL. It promoted illegal music downloads, make
money from price-set-based advertising without considering the users safety,
for example, they do block news/articles of anti-human activities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal for those "paid
strategic customer".
4. The result it returns are inaccurate for study purpose; or said excepting
entertainment purpose search, it is useless.


So, leave it alone, Baidu should never blind the people.


On 21 July 2010 02:49, YunQiang Su <email address hidden> wrote:

> I do *not* agree with baidu as default search engine.
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Ray Wang <email address hidden> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a Chinese Ubuntu user, and for me, I have no problem with if
> > this is for OEM purpose, but I really do _not_ want Baidu would be my
> > default search engine for general Maverick Chinese version.
> >
> > --
> > Add search plugin for Baidu
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578281
> > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> > Simplified Chinese Translators, which is subscribed to language-pack-zh-
> > hans in ubuntu.
> >
> > Status in “language-pack-zh-hans” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> > Status in “language-pack-zh-hans” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed
> > Status in “language-pack-zh-hans” source package in Maverick: Confirmed
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Binary package hint: ubufox
> >
> > Baidu is the leading search engine in China (
> http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63R5YM20100429) and growing given
> Google's departure from China.  It will return results that are more
> targeted and relevant to users based in China.
> >
> > I'm attaching a search plugin xml file for Baidu, generated using some
> information from OEM Service's communications with Baidu and looking at the
> suggestion info used in
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9184/
> >
> > The suggestion bit works, but not quick enough to suggest as you type...
>  If you type something in (>= 4 chars) and later backspace, you'll see the
> cached suggestion results that FF received.  Not sure if I did something
> wrong or if it's just slow.
> >
> > Baidu told OEM Services that their name is natively spelled 百度一下 so I
> used that.  Baidu's site is not translated into English, so I don't see a
> compelling reason for the name to be the Englishy "Baidu" instead of what a
> native speaker would presumably prefer.
> >
> > This also uses Ubuntu's Baidu ID for searches (the cl=3&tn=ubuntuu_cb
> bit).
> >
> > Just drop the attached plugin into the searchplugins folder in ubufox.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> YunQiang Su
>
> --
> Add search plugin for Baidu
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578281
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Simplified Chinese Translators, which is subscribed to language-pack-zh-
> hans in ubuntu.
>