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Google Trials A9 Style Image Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the be-careful-what-you-search-for dept.

Grugnog writes "Google has started including images from it's image search on the main search page. This is similar to Amazon's A9 search engine. With Google kicking off Google Print (A9's other specialty) could A9 become redundant?"

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  1. dumb question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    google's finally copying someone else, and you wonder if A9 is redundant? Talk about google-fanboy!

    We should be happy that there's actually innovation happening. competition is good.

    1. Re:dumb question by aussie_a · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Innovation on Amazon's part to cause other search companies who are considered better to add features.

  2. A9 IS google image search... by MadAnthony02 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure that A9/Amazon is using google's image search in it's engine. The bottom of A9 says:

    Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by a9.com and Alexa.

    Also, from the faq

    Who provides web search results? A9.com's Web Search Results are enhanced by Google. Data provided by A9.com and Alexa Internet is also used for search history and Site Info.

    since it doesn't mention the images as from Alexa, and since I'm guessing the A9 stuff is Amazon's inside the book, it seems logical that the image search is from google.

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  3. i hate titling posts by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But A9's results are provided by Google, so if Google manages to provide the same services A9 does, then A9 _is_ redundant.

  4. But will it be updated? by BigDawgES · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember when . . .

    There was a slashdot story about how you couldn't find any of the Abu Ghraib abuse photos on google image search, and people cried censorship only to realize that google simply hadn't updated its image database?

    Anyone have an idea about the current update schedule of google image search?

  5. Re:Being taken for a ride? by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    maybe it's just a showing of how crap of a random job the editors take while combing through the potential news items.

    you can get anything on slashdot.

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  6. WTF? by derEikopf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is stupid. It's not on Google's site, all other searches yield a 404, and if you click on "Images" then on "Web" again at the top, the images disappear. Editors, what were you thinking?

  7. Re:It's not a scam by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i did not get pics on google.com when typing traktor there, not even on the google suggest beta site.

    local differences or whatever(but google suggest seems to use the same server anywhere..).. but the poster should have had the courtesy to link to GOOGLE, and not his own site pretending it's official google.

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