How can I remove Amazon search results from the dash or disable the feature?
Click on the Ubuntu button, search for "Privacy" and then turn off "Include online results" :
You can also remove it entirely by clicking on this button, then the orange "Available on the Ubuntu Software Center" button and selecting uninstall:
or via the command line
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
You then need to log out and back in.
Another option would be to move the lens entirely out of the home dash and make it a standalone lens:
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If you don't want online shopping results in your dash but there are times when you want to search the Internet from your queries (for example, while using the Askubuntu scope to the help lens), you may not wish to disable the "Include online search results" item. In that case you may wish to remove particular sources.
For Ubuntu 13.04 and Earlier
Home Lens
For the new dash home lens (default) queries that are forwarded through Canonical to Amazon uninstall unity-lens-shopping.
Either click on the bag icons above and click the Remove button on the right in the Software Center window that appears, or use an alternative of the following command line after bringing up a terminal with Alt+Ctrl+T.
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
Or, launch Ubuntu Software Center, click Installed, expand Themes & Tweak, and scroll to the its end. You'll see Shopping lens for unity there (along with a lot of complaints).
Video Lens
For the already existing video lens lookup you can choose the source of searches by using the "Filter Results" item on the top right, and then selecting the sources you want by using the Sources drop down. Alternatively you can uninstall unity-scope-video-remote.
Either click on the bag icons above and click the Remove button on the right in the Software Center window that appears, or use the following command line after bringing up a terminal with Alt+Ctrl+T.
sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-video-remote
Music Lens
As in existing releases, online shopping for music in 12.10 can also go to the Ubuntu One Music Store. To remove that feature click on the bag button for unity-scope-musicstores and click on the
Remove button on the right in the Ubuntu Software Center window that appears.
or enter the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores
For Ubuntu 13.10 and Later
(From http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/how-to-disable-amazon-shopping.html)
Go to the Dash by Pressing the Super-A key combination. For PC hardware the Super key may be the one that has the somewhat familiar computer company logo on it.
Click on "Filter" on the upper right of the dash, and then on "Type" right below. Then click on Dash Plugins to display them.
By clicking on the plugins of interest on the left you can get a summary of each plugin, including the Amazon one. You can disable or enable them individually with the button that appears below the summary.
For enhanced privacy the source for this answer suggests the following list for consideration.
"Amazon, Ebay, Music Store, Popular Tracks Online, Skimlinks, Ubuntu One Music Search and Ubuntu Shop."
I would add the Ubuntu One Music Store, and Remote Videos as well.
There may be other plugins you don't care for as well, particularly since there are now a great number of scopes and many may forward your interests to sites you haven't vetted.
unity-lens-applications must be installed for this approach to work.
Usually when you bring up the dash you start with the Home lens. You can adjust what is searched by altering the Filter settings on the upper right of the dash before you starting type your search term.
This has changed from previous versions where all you had to do was
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping
However that does not work with 13.10 (and presumably later versions when they are released).
Ubuntu 13.10 does not have the shopping lens any more but now has Smart Scopes instead.
To disable a dash plug-in, From the dash select filter results then "Dash plugins"
To disable a plugin, click on it and then click the "Disable" button. You can re-enable it later if you want.
You can also disable all these plugins from the command line with
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope', 'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope']"
Source here:How To Disable Amazon / Shopping Suggestions And Other Unity Scopes In Ubuntu 13.10
This stops the scope running but does not remove it from the dash
If you want to do this first unlock it from the launcher by right clicking it and selecting "unlock from launcher".
You will still be able to search for it in the dash but you can remove it from there too.
You need to run nautilus as root to do this See my answer to this question Why is gksu no longer installed by default in 13.04? for instructions on installing gksu or a workaround to run GUI apps as root.
You can now run the file manager with gksudo nautilus
Naviigate to /usr/share/applications find the file with the amazon logo and delete it.
Finally reboot and its gone for good.