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The Shopping Lens is included by default in Ubuntu 12.10 onwards. It will search Amazon.com for potentially relevant products to display alongside your local results when doing a search in the dash. Canonical receives a small cut of the revenue from online purchases you make using this lens.

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How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash or disable the feature?

How can I disable Amazon search results in the Dash?
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How do I make sure that Canonical get affiliate benefits when I buy from amazon?

Ubuntu 12.10 has a new feature to search and buy from Amazon, either from the Dash, or from a unity WebApp. This is quite controversial, but for my part, I quite ok with it. So when I buy something ...
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How to remove Amazon? [duplicate]

Can I completely remove Amazon from Ubuntu?
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Can the shopping lens be changed to display results from Amazon.co.uk?

How can I configure the dash's shopping lens to fetch its search results from www.amazon.co.uk instead of www.amazon.com? Is there any program for controlling the lenses or another settings under ...
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How to remove "Amazon"? [duplicate]

I wanted to remove "Amazon" from my 14.04 and tried to follow the instructions given here: How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash or disable the feature? However, even after logging ...
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How can I move Amazon search results into a dedicated shopping lens and out of the home lens?

I don't want Amazon search results to show up in the home lens and prefer to access them in an independent shopping lens. How can this be accomplished?
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