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Search engine domain change (too much ads)

Hello all !

Some times ago I submitted some MEDIADICO search engine plugins (dictionaries) for the site mediadico.com

Now the site is stuffed with blinking ads (one need a well-configured adblock or equivalent to see anything). Hopefully, it is mirrored by dictionnaire.tv5.org with much less ads (nothing blinking). So I would like to update my search engines from mediadico.com to dictionnaire.tv5.org.

Here are some questions:
- Can an update decently change the domain of the plugin (technically, yes, of course, but here I would like to have a more philosophical point of view; what is common practice)? Or is it better to make new search engine plugins and remove the old ones?
- There are already some (working) "old" Sherlock plugins for dictionnaire.tv5.org that would be redundant. Isn't it a problem?

Thanks for your answers,

Xavier

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Probably new...

Hi

I've had a quick look at the two sites - I don't think an update from mediadico to tv5 is appropriate in this case given that the original is still working (even if there are ads) and they don't appear to be run by the same person / company. Normally I'd only take an update with a different domain when the site has obviously moved.

Don't worry too much about the Sherlock versions - they're good for everything except IE - if you submit OpenSearch versions I'll remove the Sherlock at some point to reduce confusion which does have the disbenefit of removing SeaMonkey support...

  • By ccaygill at 07/28/2008 - 14:16
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ok

Thanks for your answer.

Actually only the layout is different, the content is exactly identical.
So I will submit them during the following days (I've been testing them for a while now). I think you can keep the Sherlock plugins for seamonkey.

  • By Xavier Robin at 07/28/2008 - 15:25
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