Village Pump (technical) - Why Google Search Over Internal Search On Village Pumps?

Why Google Search Over Internal Search On Village Pumps?

At WP:Village pump I can see a search link for each village pump. These search links go to Google, which I feel is a bad idea for a number of reasons:

  1. If the internal search was used it provides a wider test base for the internal search for use over meta.
  2. Forcing an external search provider on users raises aesthetic and privacy concerns.

I discovered a discussion at WP:Village pump (policy)/Archive 59#NOINDEX of all non-content namespaces relating to this but it is old and I believe many of the counter-arguments to be outdated. Thus I propose a switch to the internal search.--Gizmoguy (talk) 00:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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