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		millstone on April 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hands on with Ubuntu 14.04 > At the same time, it's kept one controversial feature: Built-in search scopes for such commercial sites as Amazon and eBay Wow, they really did it. I searched for "web browser" and am presented with two web browsers "Firefox Web Browser" and "Browser" (?), followed by nine pictures of mens' shoes. A search for "Terminal" suggested Arnold Schwarzenegger holding a gun, and a goth metal singer dressed in a Nazi uniform sticking his tongue out at me. What a ghastly misfeature. Is a cryptic terminal command really the only way to disable this noise? The linked article couldn't even get it right (it's gsettings, not settings).

fulafel on April 21, 2014 [–]

They used to have a disable option for the search stuff in the privacy settings, did they take it out?

reirob on April 21, 2014 | [–]

You can disable the "search stuff" in System Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Search (tab).

This is what I immediately did. So, this is a shame that the article only mentions a command line method to switch it off.

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