# Do not promote google, please **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [July 26, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966 "2021-07-26T06:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cregox](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/cregox/32/2538_2.png) [@cregox](https://tosdr.community/u/cregox)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/1 "2021-07-26T06:10:19Z")
![Screenshot_20210726-070003](https://tosdr.community/images/transparent.png) when searching for ahoxus, and unable to find it, i stumbled upon this gem. if you want to use a 3rd party service, you should really use, at worse, [duck.com](http://duck.com) šŸ¦† the syntax is basically the same! > **[achoz site:https://tosdr.community/ at DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=achoz+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftosdr.community%2F&t=h_&ia=web)** > > DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified. and although there was only 1 result, while google brought up 2, including a direct link, at least it works anyway! ![Screenshot_20210726-070817](https://tosdr.community/images/transparent.png) ![Screenshot_20210726-070834](https://tosdr.community/images/transparent.png) ---
**Author:** ![justin](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/justin/32/1657_2.png) [@justin](https://tosdr.community/u/justin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/2 "2021-07-27T21:14:57Z")
Opened FORUM-3 for this, I cannot reproduce this on our internal forum so it will take a while as its on the most bottom of our To-Do list ---
**Author:** ![cregox](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/cregox/32/2538_2.png) [@cregox](https://tosdr.community/u/cregox)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/3 "2021-07-28T05:33:31Z")
fair enough why canā€™t you reproduce, though? ā€œachozā€ doesnā€™t work anymore, but coming up with a string that does is fairly trivial. if i suggest the string here, however, it will stop working! šŸ¤£ ---
**Author:** ![justin](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/justin/32/1657_2.png) [@justin](https://tosdr.community/u/justin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/4 "2021-07-28T10:05:57Z")
I cannot reproduce it because whatever I type, the google part does not pop up. ---
**Author:** ![KnossosDomovoi](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/knossosdomovoi/32/124_2.png) [@KnossosDomovoi](https://tosdr.community/u/KnossosDomovoi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/5 "2021-08-12T19:13:16Z")
For the google part to appear you have to type the _enter_ key after searching for something that doesnā€™t exist. I tried ā€œ[aaaaa](https://tosdr.community/search?q=aaaaa)ā€ and could reproduce it. This seems to be a Discourse issue and happens in every Discourse forum. Perhaps there is a configuration or Discourse plugin to change it. ---
**Author:** ![justin](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/justin/32/1657_2.png) [@justin](https://tosdr.community/u/justin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/6 "2021-08-12T19:37:24Z")
I have updated the search component with a plugin to use our Metasearch engine šŸ™‚ Let me know if this fixes the issue. I could reproduce it with @KnossosDomovoi steps. ---
**Author:** ![KnossosDomovoi](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/knossosdomovoi/32/124_2.png) [@KnossosDomovoi](https://tosdr.community/u/KnossosDomovoi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/7 "2021-08-12T19:55:07Z")
Yeah, that fixed it for me. If for some reason it doesnā€™t work for someone, try reloading the page. @justin, could you please add a link to the Metasearch engine plugin? Administrators of other Discourse forums might find this topic here by searching for something similar and I think this plugin is quite useful. ---
**Author:** ![cregox](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/cregox/32/2538_2.png) [@cregox](https://tosdr.community/u/cregox)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 5:40am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/8 "2021-08-13T05:40:36Z")
awesome @justin ! but i use other searx instances and the reason i pointed to duck with the emphasis on how it was good enough is because, sadly, searx often isnā€™t. the challenge now is finding strings in which that will happen in this situation, without bringing it up hereā€¦ so, [letā€™s talk about this on telegram, shall we?](https://t.me/tosdrorg/170) šŸ˜ meanwhile, here are 2 related issue, with the ux: ![Screenshot_20210813-063448](https://tosdr.community/images/transparent.png) the colour make the text impossible to read. and ā€œgoogleā€ is still mentioned there. now completely misleading! ---
**Author:** ![justin](https://tosdr.community/user_avatar/tosdr.community/justin/32/1657_2.png) [@justin](https://tosdr.community/u/justin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/9 "2021-08-13T11:02:24Z")
I have opened a Jira Ticket for this šŸ™‚ FORUM-4 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://s3.tosdr.community/original/2X/a/a3a33872cc3bbba2093b58aec7533dcff56717c0.svg) [@system](https://tosdr.community/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 11:03am UTC](https://tosdr.community/t/do-not-promote-google-please/1966/10 "2021-09-12T11:03:16Z")
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