[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

[Alan Bell]

On 25/09/12 20:17, keith wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100
> J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> One solution is pretty straightforward: make online search features an
>> option in the installer (same page as third-party codecs) with a link
>> to the privacy policy etc.
> [/snip]
>
> How about a 'first run' screen similar to CentOS/Redhat installer except
> for each user that is created? You could page through some choices like
> country/codecs/advert choices/main use of device/ etc and the relevant
> country specific legal stuff could appear on each page.
>
> I suspect once the lawyers get going (privacy laws being
> different in different countries and for different age groups) we will
> need to have some kind opt in agreement anyway, so why not make it tidy
> and user friendly for those not in the know about stuff like this?
that sounds annoying
>
> The other issue is perhaps more personal to me: it just seems a *waste*
> somehow of bandwidth (I know, a few bytes in the firehose &c) and of
> server cycles (yes, I know, microscopic) to generate 'suggestions' for
> search terms like 'alf*19960401*crbok*.odt' or 'data*mean*sd' or
> similar. I'm not thinking about buying things when I'm searching for
> documents. Amazon don't have a profile to filter against previous
> purchases so the suggestions will be low quality and unspecific anyway.
that is why you can click on the specific lens you want to search in to 
focus  your search. If you want to search just in the documents lens 
then do that, if you want to fire your search across a heap of places 
then you can search in the home lens. Not all lenses will support 
wildcard searches.