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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. Today? by Noksagt · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Today was the official launch day of Amazon's A9.com search engine
    Sorry to be pedantical, but I see no changes since ars technica announced the official launch a few days ago.
  2. Re:Two problems... by neiffer · · Score: 1, Redundant

    OR...even better...just stick with Google. That's the point: if I have to play with the interface so much why not just go to the source of the important results?

  3. The wrath of Google? by theluckyleper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does this not enrage Google? I mean, I know there have been meta search engines around for ages, but none that was so clearly bent on replacing Google itself.

    How is A9 getting the Google results? Screen scraping, or using some kind of API? I don't see what Google could possibly get out of this, since there are no Google ads on A9 to compensate them. A9 even links directly to Google's cache pages! This seems absurd to me.

    Am I missing something?

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