> The primary reason Canonical seems to be doing it is because of a commercial contract with Amazon. If you can point to any other OS search interface that connects to the internet by default to get search results, you might have a point. As it stands, I think this is very much a unprecedented move and not at all in line with what users expect.
Well, actually... The new Android has a local+remote search enabled by default, and iOS also does some surprising searches. That was the main reason why I said "at the present time"...