Bug 1055766 grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon
bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055766
What Jamie wrote
I'm not a fan of this new feature in Ubuntu 12.10, and this bug report is the perfect response to it.
I believe the reason for this is that the grep command only searches locally for things I am actually looking for, I kind of expect the results I get from my codebase and as such it removes any sense of mystery or something new and exciting to spice up my dull geek existence. That's boring, grep -R should also search amazon, so I get more exciting results such as: