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amazon enters the search engine market
Apr. 15th, 2004 09:05 amvector: Slashdot
amazon has launced a beta internet search engine, which i must admit, is pretty cool.
http://www.a9.com/
there is one big advantage to this search engine that i could see, and that was the "site info" link, which tells you lots of data about the site at a glance, without having to load it ... things like, popularity, speed, length of time on the web, etc. of course, there is a nice flyout that links to book search results for your search as well... it looks to be built overtop of google, so all you are doing is adding a couple of layers of useful functionality to a service that most of us use already.
amazon has launced a beta internet search engine, which i must admit, is pretty cool.
http://www.a9.com/
there is one big advantage to this search engine that i could see, and that was the "site info" link, which tells you lots of data about the site at a glance, without having to load it ... things like, popularity, speed, length of time on the web, etc. of course, there is a nice flyout that links to book search results for your search as well... it looks to be built overtop of google, so all you are doing is adding a couple of layers of useful functionality to a service that most of us use already.
