A9.com tracks and collects a record of users' web browsing activity within and across websites... Contrast all this with the amount of personal information I've given rival Google: zero, nada, or as we Aussies would say, "bugger all."
hmmmm..... really not sure i'd entirely agree with that!
besides, with generic.a9.com they offer a search service where they wont use information gathered for data analysis - which not even google offer (as far as i know?)
but then, how many people will notice that, which i guess was kinda the point of the parent post anyway:)
Somehow, I don't think that the Google killer will license Google's search.
hmmm... does seem a little odd.
since they've started talking about it, (e.g. news article - sep 2003) they seem to have been trying to pitch it as something to beat google, so is a surprise how heavily they have ended up relying on google!
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.
surely they deserve bonus points for that....
(plus the colour scheme aint so bad on generic.a9.com - reason enough to prefer it to regular a9!:) )
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They do. :)
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A9.com tracks and collects a record of users' web browsing activity within and across websites...
:)
Contrast all this with the amount of personal information I've given rival Google: zero, nada, or as we Aussies would say, "bugger all."
hmmmm..... really not sure i'd entirely agree with that!
besides, with generic.a9.com they offer a search service where they wont use information gathered for data analysis - which not even google offer (as far as i know?)
but then, how many people will notice that, which i guess was kinda the point of the parent post anyway
Somehow, I don't think that the Google killer will license Google's search.
hmmm... does seem a little odd.
since they've started talking about it, (e.g. news article - sep 2003) they seem to have been trying to pitch it as something to beat google, so is a surprise how heavily they have ended up relying on google!
hmmm.... but have you seen 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.
surely they deserve bonus points for that....
(plus the colour scheme aint so bad on generic.a9.com - reason enough to prefer it to regular a9!
nah... there really is a problem when you use mozilla
:)
but the BACK button seems fine in IE, so maybe it's not intentional.
t'is a beta after all...
--looking for the fluffy side of big companies