[CoLoCo] Abolutely uggh!

[Alexander Stokes]

Yeah, had me scared for a bit too, but yep, its just the start of a smarter
search. In no time, I am sure users will have the option to select their
favourite store to search for things. I.e. Amazon for media, newegg for
hardware,  etc.

Personally my vote would have been to have made it an opt-in feature so
this little tizzy wouldn't have happened.
On Sep 23, 2012 11:58 AM, "David Overcash" <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/22/1319216/ubuntu-will-now-have-amazon-ads-pre-installed
>>
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