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  1. Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required by pyrros · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    I'm also concerned with this, although google seems to do the same thing from time to time (actually quite rarely)

    But they do seem to have something for the tinfoil hat crowd: generic.a9.com. They claim that they dont keep any info from searches done through there.

    If you would prefer not to be recognized on our site, we recommend that you use our alternate service located at generic.A9.com. On generic.a9.com, we will not recognize your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie. Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis (other than to detect abuse) and will not be used to personalize the services we offer you. [link]

  2. Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required by pyrros · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    I'm also concerned with this, although google seems to do the same thing from time to time (actually quite rarely)

    But they do seem to have something for the tinfoil hat crowd: generic.a9.com. They claim that they dont keep any info from searches done through there.

    If you would prefer not to be recognized on our site, we recommend that you use our alternate service located at generic.A9.com. On generic.a9.com, we will not recognize your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie. Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis (other than to detect abuse) and will not be used to personalize the services we offer you. [link]

  3. Re:People who searched for "warez" also read... by radixvir · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    interesting actually searching for warez returns no results....they must be censoring the results when its in their best interest (they sell software).

  4. Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required by cybermancer · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    A9 offers a generic tracking free interface for the paranoid type. Which is the one most everyone here will be using I am sure.

    generic.a9.com

    If you would prefer not to be recognized on our site, we recommend that you use our alternate service located at generic.A9.com. On generic.a9.com, we will not recognize your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie. Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis (other than to detect abuse) and will not be used to personalize the services we offer you.

    Of course if you disable the Amazon and A9 cookies then you loose the search inside and history "features", which is most of what A9 offers over Google.

    Disabling the tracking is a nice feature. Wish you could do that with Google. Sure, google doesn't tell you what your history is, but they know.

  5. Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required by cybermancer · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    A9 offers a generic tracking free interface for the paranoid type. Which is the one most everyone here will be using I am sure.

    generic.a9.com

    If you would prefer not to be recognized on our site, we recommend that you use our alternate service located at generic.A9.com. On generic.a9.com, we will not recognize your A9.com or Amazon.com cookie. Information we gather on generic.a9.com will not be used in our data analysis (other than to detect abuse) and will not be used to personalize the services we offer you.

    Of course if you disable the Amazon and A9 cookies then you loose the search inside and history "features", which is most of what A9 offers over Google.

    Disabling the tracking is a nice feature. Wish you could do that with Google. Sure, google doesn't tell you what your history is, but they know.

  6. Re:off-topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    And according to their job posting for client software, they're only looking for Windows developers. Fuckers. BOYCOTT!!

  7. Amazon eh? by evil-osm · · Score: 2, Informative · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    Well here's the google cache for it...

    Take that!

    Hmmm I was going to be funny for a second, but then I tried a9's cache of googles site and got this

    Seems that they are using Google's cache, and simply re-directing users to Google.

    Meh, I guess thats what a beta is all about.

  8. Emacs is a web browser! by Atmchicago · · Score: 1 · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    As usual, emacs finds its way in there, even for web browsers! (and before IE is mentioned). Look here to see what I mean. (I do realize that emacs isn't a web browser, but still...)

  9. I'll stick with Google, thanks. by El_Smack · · Score: 2, Funny · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    Read the "Reasons to use a9" linked here.

    I bet they could build a pretty good profile on what interests you.
    Now if they only had some type of online store that could sell you something, they could really clean up.

  10. Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required by MrBlue+VT · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    Yeah, the fact that they don't provide direct links to the pages also throws my paranoia into overdrive. This is the link that you get when you search for Slashdot:
    http://a9.com/-/search/a9-redirect.jsp?url=http:// slashdot.org/&title=%26lt%3Bb%26gt%3BSlashdot%26lt %3B%2Fb%26gt%3B%3A+News+for+nerds%2C+stuff+that+ma tters&token=0A3316C2D3DF4FF99CB34DD1FCCFD04B&t=108 19845643&qt=ws
    Clicky.

    So basically they can track whatever pages you go to.
  11. URL Short cuts - cool! by Psychic+Burrito · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    From the a9 what's cool page:
    URL Short Cuts: At A9.com you can search directly from the browser URL box by typing: a9.com/query
    I think this is extremely cool. A short way to enter queries by even bypassing the home page completely. I suggested this to Google 3 years back, but they wouldn't hear. I hope they will implement this now in some form.
  12. CLICK BELOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    Everyone should run this search just to break in their search engine.

  13. DLF 0wnz the kiddie porn market niggers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    EW!!!

    First search for the word Vagina

    Returned This!

    GUH-ROH-DEE

    I love you kewsh

    Seelet is the biggest queen in #dlf

    My cats name is brownshoo

  14. Weird findings regarding IE by Patik · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    On their "what's cool" page, they say you can just hover your cursor over the 'site info' button below search results to see more info without leaving the page (works in IE but not Firefox).

    So I searched for Windows and hovered over the site info for the Internet Explorer Home Page (the second result), and the bubble that pops up says:

    People who visit this page also visit:
    • mozilla.org
    • The Gnome DOM Engine
    • Adobe's SVG Viewer
    So people are looking for IE but turn to Mozilla instead? Are people searching for "web browser" and clicking on Mozilla out of interest?

    Here are the top links for "web browser": Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Opera again, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, Netscape, Anybrowser.org, and evolt.org.

    Not a single link to IE on the first page of results for "web browser"? Fishy.

  15. Weird findings regarding IE by Patik · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    On their "what's cool" page, they say you can just hover your cursor over the 'site info' button below search results to see more info without leaving the page (works in IE but not Firefox).

    So I searched for Windows and hovered over the site info for the Internet Explorer Home Page (the second result), and the bubble that pops up says:

    People who visit this page also visit:
    • mozilla.org
    • The Gnome DOM Engine
    • Adobe's SVG Viewer
    So people are looking for IE but turn to Mozilla instead? Are people searching for "web browser" and clicking on Mozilla out of interest?

    Here are the top links for "web browser": Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Opera again, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, Netscape, Anybrowser.org, and evolt.org.

    Not a single link to IE on the first page of results for "web browser"? Fishy.

  16. Weird findings regarding IE by Patik · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live
    On their "what's cool" page, they say you can just hover your cursor over the 'site info' button below search results to see more info without leaving the page (works in IE but not Firefox).

    So I searched for Windows and hovered over the site info for the Internet Explorer Home Page (the second result), and the bubble that pops up says:

    People who visit this page also visit:
    • mozilla.org
    • The Gnome DOM Engine
    • Adobe's SVG Viewer
    So people are looking for IE but turn to Mozilla instead? Are people searching for "web browser" and clicking on Mozilla out of interest?

    Here are the top links for "web browser": Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Opera again, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, Netscape, Anybrowser.org, and evolt.org.

    Not a single link to IE on the first page of results for "web browser"? Fishy.

  17. Tinfoil Hat Not Required by RobertB-DC · · Score: 5, Funny · on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live

    From the 7 Reasons to Use A9.com:

    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 and a password will be required to open it again. You can edit your history, for example, to hide an entry.

    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.

    You don't have to be among the tin-foil hat crowd to have a low regard for this "feature". There are just some searches that you *don't* want to remember.

    It's not a stretch to imagine a situation like this:

    Boss: "Google me some info on our competitors."

    Lackey: "Check out this new A9.com search!"

    Boss: "What's that link there? I didn't know you were interested in goats... [Click] Damn! You're fired!"