On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > I feel amazingly calm, just thought it was an interesting thing I had not > heard about yet.
It wasn't directed at you personally; just meaning: let's see this objectively first. [...] > It is of course an affiliate ad, let's call a spade a spade. It is paid > results from amazon. If that is not an ad then I have been in the wrong > business for a while now. I didn't read it this way. I still don't. It pays us to provide an amazing experience to people who use the Dash to search for things and get what they want, no matter what they are searching for. It's a benefit to the users, and in turn makes Ubuntu shine. I could be wrong, and I'm not privy to the details about this. (Seems to me like having the results go through Canonical first diminishes the worth of the search results for Amazon quite a lot). If it's an extra revenue, then great. It means more money to bring in resources to make Ubuntu even better. What does it change to the users, especially once the results are anonymized? > Anyways, as long as it is an opt-in search option and not on by default, and > does not share private data from the rest of the lenses then I have no > problem with it really. Firefox has different search options in their search > bar, same dif. Seems basically a dumb feature, and I don't like the idea of > the search becoming some behemoth for searching the whole world... I just > want to find my apps, and maybe files. I have a web browser for searching > the web. That's the difference, and where a lot of people disagree. I would very much like to start my computer and just press the Super key and type in the search to have it open up in a web browser. Seems very efficient. However, I'm less happy about the selection of Amazon over Google, but oh well. It's still a recent change, orchestrated (sadly) very late in the release cycle, so there will definitely be lots of improvements in the weeks to come. I'm certain we'll see at least a few decent ways to disable the external search, and probably a way to choose where to send the searches. If not, we'll see new scopes to handle this kind of thing. Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
