Amazon's A9 Offers Unique Local Search Experience
Date: 2005-03-17 Source: Search Engine Guide
One of A9's goals is to encourage both consumers and businesses to come to the site and update listing information with photographs of the business, Web site addresses, email addresses, details about product offerings, even updates to the categories that a business should be listed under. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon search pictures your destination
Date: 2005-01-27 Source: News.com
People can call up a business listing to find contact information (with an Internet-to-phone dialing service), reviews, a local map and a photo of the business' facade. With a feature called "block view," people can also click to see adjacent businesses or surrounding neighborhoods. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon, A9 Give Virutal Search Tour
Date: 2005-01-27 Source: InternetNews.com
Internet retail giant Amazon introduced a new feature to an old service this week when it launched A9.com Yellow Pages -- a guide to local businesses complete with photographs. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon's Secret Sale
Date: 2004-09-17 Source: Fool.com
Amazon is offering an additional, small discount to its already lowered prices to shoppers who click over from its newly launched search engine, A9.com. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is It Really A9 Out of 10?
Date: 2004-09-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
Amazon.com has just launched a new search engine called A9 which provides a more personalized search experience. Lets see just how personalized this service is. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Book on Amazon.com's A9 Search Engine
Date: 2004-04-26 Source: Traffick
It's hard to believe that, for the first time since I started using Google five years ago, I could actually see myself switching to another search engine, or at least offering joint custody of my browser to A9 and Google. I'm still not sure I'm head over heels in love with A9, but my affection is growing daily. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Blending the Best of Google and Amazon
Date: 2004-04-21 Source: SearchDay
With little fanfare, Amazon.com subsidiary A9 launched its long-rumored Google powered search engine last week. But A9 goes beyond Google, offering a number of unique options, including some very cool personalization features. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon.com tiptoes into search arena
Date: 2004-04-20 Source: The Register
The launch does reinforce Amazon's strategy of keeping its eCommerce search technology as a separate business entity, which in turn is part of the company's continued evolution from an online retailer to an Internet technology services vendor. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon unveils search tool
Date: 2004-04-14 Source: News.com
The company's A9.com subsidiary quietly launches a test version on the Web, hoping to challenge Yahoo and Google in the lucrative search market. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
