With the recent update to Google Search for Android you can no longer disable web searches. Every time you use the universal search on the phone you must wait for the web results to return and they are listed before the apps. For people who primarily use the search functionality for accessing apps this poses difficulty.
What is the best way around this? At present I've just been using an older version of the Google Search apk. Is the best way around this hacking the current Google Search apk to just have a different package name and use that from now on? Does anyone know if there is a hack to disable web searches in the new Google Search with integrated Google Now?
Also posted a poll along with this to see if other people find this intentional exclusion of web search options annoying. Thanks in advance.
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Hi All, I'm just wanting to know if its possible to mod the stock browser to include more search engines. To be honest, I'm not happy with Google saving every search I perform or tracking my online activities. I'm not engaging in suspicious activities but think privacy is important.
So, is it possible to add duckduckgo to the list of search engines?
How do I do this (if its not too difficult)
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Is it at all possible to just, like, get non-country specific search results? Each time I look for something, or just dare to browse around Google Play, I am swarmed by ****ty app ports with 1-2k downloads by the Croatian devs. I know there's the Market Enabler, but I don't really need that level of spoofing, I just want to customize my search results to weed out local crap
I tried to look at the settings and couldn't find anything. Honestly, it's beyond me how the owners of such a ridiculously advanced search engine managed to create a high-profile app store with such ****ty app sorting!
I would like to make startpage.com the default search engine in CM 10.2. All I know is how to change the default search engine in the browser (I use Firefox). But I'd like to use startpage (or duckduckgo) search everywhere.
1.) Is there a way to change the search widget from google to startpage? (startpage.com recently started to provide an app but it comes without its own widget.)
2.) With certain long key presses, my device will open Google Now. Is there a way to change that to startpage?
3.) I am not an expert on technical issues but I would suspect that Android routes the search queries of other apps to Google servers? In other words, my guess is that Google provides an API that other apps that need internet search functionality can use. If my assumption is true, would it be possible to change the search engine to startpage?
I would also be grateful for general information as to whether it is possible to change the default search engine in CM or not.
I'm using a Nexus 4 and trying to get rid of all the Google tracking services and their built-in Android background communications with Google servers. I have already searched the internet and found a few articles about this, however most of them were outdated or didn't answer my questions.
I do like the look and feel of stock Android, which is why I would probably go for CyanogenMod for this. In an optimal world, it would retain its current look and feel, but without communicating with Google.
My questions that I currently have pretty much are as follows (when using CyanogenMod):
- is it possible to keep using SOME Play store / stock apps but taking their permission to send information to Google? For example, I still want to use whatsapp and I doubt I can find it in the F-Droid store, or perhaps i like the Google camera app, and so on
- is it possible to turn off all Google tracking services (obvious things such as Google Now, but also the less obvious, like the constant hidden communications with Google servers) using CyanogenMod?
hi folks,I cannot be the only person on xda with this problem,which is,how to search through 4000 apps in MY APPS that I want to keep listed but would like to be able to find the one I want/need in less than a week.
any ideas/advice ?
I would prefer an app that can use different filters,like age,device etc etc.
I presume google refuse access to apps/software that would make this possible,its ridiculous that I have to install a seperate app to find the apps I have paid for,or muck about in a browser at my google account history to even do that simple task.
have looked for years and still not found a tool for searching my apps,and google do not appear to want to make it possible.
I just use the search function in Google Play Store.