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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Trying out Saucy today I noticed the weather results in the dash. Hey 
awesome, it is going to be 32 degrees tomorrow! Um no, it is going to be 
32 degrees in Termoli, Italy. That is because I was in progress of 
launching the terminal application when I noticed it. I tried again 
searching for "weather" which told me that it is going to be quite nice 
in Weatherford, USA. Finally I searched for London to find the cold and 
miserable result I was looking for.

So this is kind of a cool feature, but it is *never* going to 
accidentally and serendipitously show me the weather in somewhere I care 
about. I have to explicitly type in the name of somewhere nearish me 
that probably has a weather forecast - doing what makes sense to me and 
just typing weather does not show me weather where I am.

I know the smart scopes plan is supposed to improve this kind of thing, 
but in general I think lenses should be less eager to show results on 
the dash home page that just can't be relevant to any random thing I 
type (which is rarely anything outside the array ["term", "firef", 
"chro", "ecli"])

Alan

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