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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

A9 Blends the Best of Google and Amazon

Chris Sherman reviews Amazon's new A9 search engine, which hasn't gotten much attention since it was released. I'm surprised more people haven't been talking about A9 with all the attention search has been getting lately. Maybe nobody cares because it's just another Google-powered search engine. Here are 7 reasons to use A9 (taken from their site):

  1. Search Inside the Book™: In addition to web search results we present book results from Amazon.com that include Search Inside the Book. When you see an excerpt on any of the book results, click on the page number to see the actual page from that book. (You will need to be registered at Amazon.com.)

  2. Adjustable Columns: Simply drag the boundaries between the columns either to the left or the right to change the width of the different result sets (web, books, history). You can also close any column at any time. The next search will remember these new settings (if you allow cookies). This feature does not currently work on all browsers (but we're working on it!).

  3. URL Short Cuts: At A9.com you can search directly from the browser URL box by typing:

    a9.com/query

  4. Search History: All your searches at A9.com are stored on our servers and shown to you at any time from any computer you use. Clicking on a link performs the search again. You can hide the window at any time. You can edit your history, for example, to clear an entry.

  5. Click History: If any of the web search results include a site that you have seen before, it's marked on the result. We even tell you the last time you visited that site.

  6. Site Info: Place the cursor on one of the Site Info buttons to see a lot more information about that site without leaving the search result page.

  7. Web Search: Web search results are provided by Google.

Is the is the "Google of the future"? Try out A9 for yourself and see what you think.

posted by Dave @ 11:06 AM  

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