Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash [LWN.net]

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 26, 2012 22:14 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash by nix
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

what you are missing is that some things are expected to use the network, and having those things be slow if you have a bad or not Internet connection is expected.

Having a local search box now require Internet connectivity _IS_ assuming the "always connected" lifestyle.

for people who are "always connected" with fast, low latency connections, the only concerns are privacy related.

for people who do not enjoy such "always connected" environments, these new dependencies on the network are a problem.

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Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 26, 2012 22:39 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Not true. That is only so if search results do not appear until the Internet side of the search is completed. If they appear as soon as they have any results at all, and then update as new results come in, the net effective latency of the Internet side of the search is zero.

This is not rocket science: Chrome's suggestion box already does it.

Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash

Posted Sep 27, 2012 4:57 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (guest, #32870) [Link]

but I can tell you from first hand experience that it is very dsconcerting and annoying to ha the layout and result page of a dash query jump around for 10 secs after the search. heck, if i type in the das, I probably just want to start GIMP and not earn about all possible gimp media out there.