Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live 402
fjordboy writes "John Battelle has posted a discussion and review of Amazon's new search engine: a9.com. From the article:"What makes this particularly noteworthy is that A9 is built quite literally on top of Google. In short, Amazon has taken the best of Google, and made it, to my mind, a lot better. Sound familiar? Yup, it's what Google did to Yahoo, Yahoo to Netscape...you get the picture." "
Ads (Score:5, Funny)
Tinfoil Hat Not Required (Score:5, Funny)
Search History: All your searches at A9.com are stored on our servers and shown to you at any time from any computer you use. Clicking on a link performs the search again. You can hide the window at any time and a password will be required to open it again. You can edit your history, for example, to hide an entry.
Click History: If any of the web search results include a site that you have seen before, it's marked on the result. We even tell you the last time you visited that site.
You don't have to be among the tin-foil hat crowd to have a low regard for this "feature". There are just some searches that you *don't* want to remember.
It's not a stretch to imagine a situation like this:
Boss: "Google me some info on our competitors."
Lackey: "Check out this new A9.com search!"
Boss: "What's that link there? I didn't know you were interested in goats... [Click] Damn! You're fired!"
CLICK BELOW (Score:5, Funny)
screw amazon (Score:2, Funny)
A quick comparison with google. (Score:2, Funny)
sex:
a9.com: about 8,610,000 hits
google: about 216,000,000
goatse:
a9.com: about 9,930
google: about 41,
amishrakefight.org/gfy
a9.com: about 211
google: Sorry, no information is available...
Statistically, 2/3 of the time you are better off using a9.com
-Grump
Amazon has taken the best of Google... (Score:5, Funny)
lazy name selection (Score:5, Funny)
a1.com? no, steak sauce.
a2.com? nope. taken.
a3.com? porn site.
a9.com? unregistered. dude, we've done it!
Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required (Score:5, Funny)
As if you couldn't find history in Mozilla...
Could be worse, could be the boss turns to you and winks.
what's their plan... track most popular searches, keep a cookie full of it, suggest these fine things the next time you go to Amazon.com... could even help them anticipate what to carry [We need to carry ... goats?] as if their marketing data isn't already legion...
Porn (Score:5, Funny)
In case of slashdotting... (Score:5, Funny)
Show me an A9 cache of Google's cache and we'll talk...
I'll stick with Google, thanks. (Score:3, Funny)
I bet they could build a pretty good profile on what interests you.
Now if they only had some type of online store that could sell you something, they could really clean up.
Re:CLICK BELOW (Score:3, Funny)
Re:off-topic (Score:0, Funny)
Re:1 reason not to use a9.com (Score:5, Funny)
And that, ladies and gentlemen is the executive summary for The Life Of A Slashdotter.
Well it works for me ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Tinfoil Hat Not Required (Score:4, Funny)
Re:People who searched for "warez" also read... (Score:5, Funny)
But oddly it works for "petz" and "catz"...
Pirating animals must be okay for them.
Re:Ads (Score:5, Funny)
You're being too interpretive with it. The poster clearly said it was quite literally on top. This obviously means that the Amazon servers are directly above the Google servers, which are directly above the Yahoo servers, which are directly above the Netscape servers.
Oh, unless it's yet another misuse of the word "literally" to mean "metaphorically". I guess we'll never know.
Re:Weird findings regarding IE (Score:3, Funny)
Search Results (Score:3, Funny)
First result: Amazon [amazon.com]
Go to a9.com and search for 'books'.
First result: Barnes and Noble [barnesandnoble.com]
Re:Ads (Score:3, Funny)
One system built upon another...