Closed
Bug 1268986
Opened 8 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
AOL Partner Search says "AOL Search Search"
Categories
(Firefox :: Search, defect, P2)
Firefox
Search
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
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firefox49 | --- | affected |
People
(Reporter: mkaply, Unassigned)
Details
(Whiteboard: [partner search] [fxsearch])
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If you install the AOL partner build and display the search dropdown, it says "AOL Search Search". I know right now we just append the word "Search" to the engine. I'm not sure if that's the correct thing. Maybe if we did something simple like make sure the engine name didn't contain the word we are appending? That would solve it for all languages.
Comment 1•8 years ago
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(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #0) > Created attachment 8747284 [details] > Screenshot of Dropdown > > If you install the AOL partner build and display the search dropdown, it > says "AOL Search Search". > > I know right now we just append the word "Search" to the engine. I'm not > sure if that's the correct thing. > > Maybe if we did something simple like make sure the engine name didn't > contain the word we are appending? > > That would solve it for all languages. I'm not sure if you are suggesting changing the name inside the AOL search plugin, or making the UI code detected the duplicated word. If the latter, that would "solve" the problem (or rather hack around it) only for en-US, as for other languages you would see things like "Recherche AOL Search" in French. I think we should just change the name inside the aol plugin. And it we could also change the icon to have a hidpi-friendly one, that would be good too.
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Comment 2•8 years ago
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This isn't just an AOL problem, it's everywhere. web.de (the website) calls their search WEB.de Suche. Even Yahoo calls it Yahoo Search. The problem is with the choice to append the word "Search". It assume that the name of the engine corresponds to a search company. AOL is not a search engine, it's a company. WEB.DE is not a search engine, it's a company. So their engines are named "AOL Search" and "WEB.DE Suche/Search", because searching "AOL" doesn't make sense. You're searching "AOL Search" So you can use it as as an object of a verb - Search with AOL Search, but you can't just arbitrarily add Search to the end. This is a design problem.
Updated•8 years ago
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Priority: -- → P2
Whiteboard: [partner search]
Updated•8 years ago
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Whiteboard: [partner search] → [partner search] [fxsearch]
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Comment 3•7 years ago
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@mconnor convinced me I'm wrong. It's an opensearch plugin, of course it's search. The bug is that AOL named their plugin AOL Search.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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