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September 19, 2004

A9 Search Engine - Amazon's Try at Searching the Web

Amazon has finally released their new search engine A9. It doesn't seem better than Google, but it does have some interesting user interface features. Over on the right (after you do a search), there are some buttons that show more results divided by result type. For example, click on Books and a new column appears with books matching your search. You can even dynamically resize the column width! Pretty cool for a web site.

The other interesting feature is that the results are all from Google. They don't even do their own searching, they just massage them. They also let you know if a result is new, old, already visited, etc. These are all the features I have seen in it so far, but it is a good start in the right direction for new web search engines.

Posted by Andrew at September 19, 2004 8:43 PM