I thought that this was what lenses was supposed to fix? Being able to switch between a variety of different searches.
12.10 seems to take the opinion that every search you do should search everything by default, not even google does that.
If they are going to follow this model with Amazon, there isn't really any reason to believe they won't do it for anyone who offers them a sweet affiliate deal.
Re:The future of Ubuntu revealed
by adrianhoward on Monday December 03, 2012 @08:36AM
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I would personally think that the USP that they have on the Ubuntu desktop is something that non-technical folk quite like to use. From what I've seen they've done that very well. From what you can see on their design approach from the outside I don't think they'll mess that up.
Time will tell.
What unity desperately needs is better NLP.
If I type something and it can infer that it's probably a book title then show me books, probably a film title then bring up IMDB but if I'm typing "xterm" I really only want xterm.
This is why I sad "a chunk of people" not "everybody". I don't like it either. If and when 12.10 works on my laptop I'll kill it straight away.
My partner, however, likes it. She's often searching for book refs and amazon stuff. This makes her life easier and better.
Just because a group of people don't like something doesn't necessarily make it a bad UX. The mantra of everybody in the UX profession is that "you are not the user". My likes and dislikes do not matter if I am not the target market.
Does it matter if N techies hate something if N x 100 in some other larger group love it to bits?
Once you are in this mindset you start to think "why should amazon get special treatment?" and you say "hey, we should search ebay too and what about netflix and pornhub?" and suddenly you have an entire screen full of crap and are leaking information everywhere.
If and when that does happen - that'll be bad.
Hasn't happened so far with Google.
I don't see the Ubuntu folk being dumb enough to make that happen on their platform.