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Stypox / dicio-android

Dicio assistant app for Android
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[Feature Request] Skill: "search for alternatives for" #138

Open machiav3lli opened 1 year ago

machiav3lli commented 1 year ago

The website https://alternativeto.net provides really good results for users searching for (FOSS) alternatives for common software. It would be a nice skill to be able be to search directly using specific criteria e.g. "search for FOSS/open-source/libre alternative for google assistant", "search for free linux alternative to photoshop"...

primesun commented 1 year ago

I vote against this as a separate skill. It's a very niche use case that most users don't care about, and would clutter the app. A normal web search, which is already supported, should be sufficient to cover this.

machiav3lli commented 1 year ago

I would argue that it fits the function of a "FOSS alternative" to promote users on using more alternatives. Eventually, adding alternativeto.net as a search engine would lead to interest conflict (a normal search engine vs. specific use case) and just leaving this for the default search engine to deliver won't do it, concerning results.