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The feature in question displays search results from Amazon alongside results from the user's computer in the main search lens. Users have questioned its utility and raised the possibility that Amazon could track those search results. Shuttleworth wrote on Saturday that "we are not telling Amazon what ," and that Canonical's own servers are the ones that will handle the search traffic.

However, two analyses using Wireshark - an in-depth network monitoring program - have revealed that the search lens in question does, in fact, communicate with an Amazon when queries are typed in, undermining the Canonical founder's claim.

The author of one of the articles, McGill University computer science student Etienne Perot, says that Shuttleworth's statement "Don't trust us? Erm, we have root" prompted him to delve more deeply into the search feature.