On 19/05/07, Philip Sandifer sandifer@english.ufl.edu wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search
Any idea when we started displaying non-free corporate logos on our search page?
I didn't know they were on the default search form!
I had this discussion a while ago regarding them on the (backup) search form, for when ours was down -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Googlesearch#Images
where my argument was
a) that they were being used for the reasonably sensible use of identifying what the box you were about to type a query into was; and
b) that no-one was giving a reason to avoid them beyond a mechanical "remove fair use images"