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A9.com with Syndicated Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-wars-are-going-to-get-interesting dept.

joeykiller writes "Search Engine Watch reports that Amazon now lets you add your own search to their A9 search engine. Users can opt-in to use additional search engines in addition to A9.com's own when searching. Amazon has chosen to use an extension of RSS 2.0 for this, and hopes that this format will enable search syndication in the same way RSS did for content. Several add-on searches are available already, among them New York Times, Wikipedia and NASA."

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  1. flexible presentation of other's searches by GMO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a little off topic... ...but I have been running a protein structure comparison service (TOPS, if anyone cares :) that is a /kind/ of search engine.

    What I think is best about our system is the presentation of the results, not necessarily the engine itself (oh well!).

    So I was thinking that it would be cool if other 'search engines' (comparison services) could run a search and submit the results to our servers for display.

    Kind of like this? Would need some kind of protocol for describing matches.