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"Better search suggestions in Firefox": What are the "specialized search services"?

Lutz
Making moves

On "Better search suggestions in Firefox" you write:

> We can then return a result directly or fetch one from a specialized search service.

What are these specialized search services? How does Mozilla decide which are uses the generate the result? Can I configure them?

You also write

> This is a helpful feature, but these suggestions always take you to a search engine results page, not necessarily the information or website you’re ultimately looking for. This is ideal for the search provider, but not always best for the user.

If I find some useful link in the search results, I will click on it and visit the site providing the information. This is good for the party operating the site. They get attention and possbile revenue through advertisement. I consider it a bad idea for Mozilla to do the same as the big search engies are doing: preventing the user from visiting the original site.

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