[CoLoCo] Abolutely uggh!

[David Overcash]

I'm not sure it's worth getting in a huff over.

1) You can remove them if you don't want them.
2) They're not ads ( classic poor summary by Slashdot editors ), they're
suggestions for things that they predict you would want to purchase through
the dash.  For example, I search for "Simon and Garfunkel" and realize I
don't in fact own the song I was hoping I could - rather than show me
absolutely nothing, the dash now provides me with a solid solution.
3) The goal of the dash is to be able to show you anything and everything -
i.e. a one stop place to search for anything ( whether it be local or on
the web ).  Because they're sending these searches through a proxy hosted
by canonical, they remain both anonymous and, ultimately, more powerful.

Mark Shuttleworth's explanation is pretty good as well -
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

Cheers,
David

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

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