New search engine from Amazon - A9
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on September 17, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Something worth looking at – A9 – Amazon.com’s new search engine. It has a little different interface than Google (A9 is ‘enhanced’ by Google) along with some cool features.
Take a look at search in A9 for University of Waterloo verses a search in Google for University of Waterloo and note the images on the right column. If you look at Google’s image tab for the same search you will see the same images but A9 skips the tabs. On the site you can find the why use A9 scoop.
One thing you do get with Amazon is the contact details which are the same for all UW sites. Interestingly UW has an average traffic rank of 9, 789 and its speed is ‘average’. No idea what that means – based on Google’s pagerank? Also, in the top three of ‘People that visit the UW page also check out Dr. Daniel Scott’s site. It doesn’t seem to exist. Suppose A9 has a few bugs yet – oh and it needs to update that screen shot of UW.