Search Engine Preloads

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi,

How do you determine what search engines come preloaded?  (Ask.com Yahoo, Bing, etc)

I vaguely recall it's based on the Top 5 search engines in that country, but I can't recall what data set is used for that.

Duck Duck Go has made it to the top 5 in the USA, UK, Ireland, Spain, France and Mexico according to gs.statcounter.com for at least the last 30 days.  At what point would it make it into Chrome's default preload list?

Thanks!
Bryan

[Peter Kasting]

We don't reveal publicly the criteria used to create these lists.

PK

[Nico Weber]

Having said that, as you can see here https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/components/search_engines/template_url_prepopulate_data.cc&rcl=1432352500&l=49 most countries have three pre-defined search engines, so it's probably not based on a top 5 list.

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Peter Kasting <pkas...@chromium.org> wrote:

We don't reveal publicly the criteria used to create these lists.

PK

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[Bryan Quigley]

Thanks! That is helpful!