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Dear Friends of GNU,
I was in #Thunderbird when I came across the option to change my search engine. Included was adding an #Opensearch search engine. When I looked at my search options, they included the usual horrible data miners, Google, Bing, etc,
Normally I use #Startpage or #SearX if I can
Then up popped an option #Opensearch
https://opensearch.org
This seems to be operated by Amazon, the well known buy everything ubiquitous company.
Haven't got a clue if I need this or why I need a #SearchEngine in an #email client anyway?
As usual, I am drowning above my depth. Any #advice welcome. HELP!
@Lobster Not sure what you exactly mean by search engine options within Thunderbird. But opensearch is a search engine you can run yourself to index your own data. It has been forked by Amazon from #elasticsearch because they changed their license.
I only can imagine that you could host #opensearch yourself and integrate it with Thunderbird to index and search your emails.