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Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the competition-benefits-everyone dept.

scapermoya writes "Today was the official launch day of Amazon's A9.com search engine, which has been in public beta for some time now. It uses results from Google, and adds some personalized features, like bookmarks and search history. Its Java-heavy inteface reminds me of Gmail, which is nice. It doesn't seem like it was designed to supplant Google, but rather to flesh out some things that a certain demographic of people might like."

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  1. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just typed in linux and saw that you also get to see pictures and what did my unbelieving eyes find?

    http://www.wejher.pl/mpx/pic/apple-mac10a-linux. jp g

    Great, just great!

    Now I don't dare to search for IANAL...

  2. Re:Java-heavy interface? by nick-less · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Its Java-heavy interface
    >
    >You mean Javascript-heavy interface?

    Thats slashdot logic: if its slow and ugly, it must be java...

  3. Re:Today? by bjpirt · · Score: 2, Funny

    that would be "Sorry to be pedantic..." then ;-)

  4. insane? by gstone · · Score: 5, Funny
    Here is my user experience:


    ummm ... OK? Seriosuly, are these guys insane including unfiltered image search results by default?
  5. Re:Two problems... by TwistedSpring · · Score: 2, Funny

    I live in a small town called "Porn" in Russia. When I searched for it on google and A9, all the results were naked ladies!

  6. Re:Two problems... by empaler · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how many 'Helena'-searches that post triggered...