Request for flexible search mode switcher for certain region users.

• Nov 18, 2021 - 10:04
Type
musescore.org
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project

MuseScore.org uses Google search engine for website search. But it is impossible for users in China mainland to get access.

There is some work around, such as manually type site:musescore.org keywords. Howevernormal users won’t do this.

My suggestion is to click the icon on the top right of page to switch the modes to “site search”. But the options are always ignored for most users.
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Comments

Are you sure that the musescore.org search does use Google? If it did, the results should be much better than they currently are, as far as I can tell.
ISTR even a request to actually do use Google for this purpose.

OK, so the 'normal' search does not use Google, but offeres to use Google instead.
Maybe other options could get added there (not replace Google), Bing being all but one of the possible options.

I'm not talking about musescore.com. The link to Google in your image is an extra option, on top of the 'normal' musescore.org search, else you won't see the search hits above it