Introducing Ubuntu Answers Lens for Unity | Linux Today

Introducing Ubuntu Answers Lens for Unity

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Marius Nestor
Dec 8, 2012

The Ubuntu Answers Lens is an Unity Lens that allows users to easily and quickly find answers to common questions directly from Unity Dash. Users will be able to right click an answer in order to view detailed information about what they searched for. The Lens uses the automatton.org API for queries, which gathers information from popular websites like Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, etc.

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Marius Nestor

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