There are two problems with the Ubuntu search box.
1) Not being very clear to your users that the search box is now global and will send information out of the local machine
2) Amazon search sucks.
I haven't used recent versions of Ubuntu, but linking a good distro with the disaster that is Amazon search is not something appealing to me. I don't think it's going to improve my experience on Ubuntu. I strongly feel it's going to make my search experience really sucky.
Note that I am ad-tolerant, and I don't really care about information getting sent off to other servers (so long as I'm told about it before hand) so Canonical have a bit of work to do to persuade me that the new experience is not as awful as Amazon search is on the website.
PS: Apologies to any Amazoners here, but come on, you know the search is terrible, right?
1) Not being very clear to your users that the search box is now global and will send information out of the local machine
2) Amazon search sucks.
I haven't used recent versions of Ubuntu, but linking a good distro with the disaster that is Amazon search is not something appealing to me. I don't think it's going to improve my experience on Ubuntu. I strongly feel it's going to make my search experience really sucky.
Note that I am ad-tolerant, and I don't really care about information getting sent off to other servers (so long as I'm told about it before hand) so Canonical have a bit of work to do to persuade me that the new experience is not as awful as Amazon search is on the website.
PS: Apologies to any Amazoners here, but come on, you know the search is terrible, right?