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Can someone who has more context around this commit explain what is going on here? What does this commit do? Why did this commit get accepted in the commit hi

• DennisAleynikov 8y ago
  There used to be a search engine switcher view, but google needed there to be only one correct way of searching the web. so somebody just committed this joke from Slashdot where anons are "anonymous cowards" to remove that previously available option to change engine.
• ucaetano 8y ago
  There used to be a search engine switcher view, but google needed to make money.
• dooglius 8y ago
  >Why did this commit get accepted in the commit history tree published at android.googlesource.com? As opposed to what? Do you expect them to maintain an alternate tree without the change that doesn't match published binaries?
  • millstone 8y ago
    Google has an alternate tree. It’s used for prerelease and cancelled hardware, among other things. But probably not for this. An alternative would have been to bury the change in “misc cleanup” commit. Kudos for at least being honest.
• emilsedgh 8y ago
  I think a Google employee was tasked to remove the search engine choice and hardcode google search into Android. He didn't want his name to be attached as the person who did this (and we can assume it was some sort of protest to the change) so he committed this as "Anonymous Coward". Also "Anonymous Coward", as others pointed out, was the way Slashdot referenced guest comments.
  • cerberusss 8y ago
    > was the way Slashdot referenced guest comments It still is.