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Archive for the ‘A9 Amazon’ Category

August 14th, 2007

Yahoo Delivers the Most Satisfaction

In a recent survey held by University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index, or ACSI, on customer satisfaction Yahoo came on top with a score of 79 while Google scored only 78 in a surver that asked people about to report on Web search services, portals, online news and information.
Yahoo’s score shows a 4 point […]

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October 4th, 2006

A9 had Given Up

Almost 2-1/2 years ago, Amazon decided to that it needs it’s own search engine and purchased the platform on which it developed it’s A9 search engine. Heck this engine even got it’s own category on this this blog. However, it appears that ambition alone is not enough and Amazon had decided to scale back key […]

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May 6th, 2006

Amazon Dumps Google for Microsoft

A surprising move by Amazon which appears to be showing MSN’s Live.com results over the Google results it used to show. Same goes for Alexa which is owned by Amazon as well.
Both engines show the   logo embedded in their results, so I guess it is a done deal. There has been no official announcement […]

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October 2nd, 2005

A9 Search Box to the Website Near You

SEW reports that the A9 development team added a new page with information about adding a customizd A9 search function to any web page. Currently the service offers search and yellow pages search boxes but more are promised to come in the future.
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August 17th, 2005

Amazon reannounced A9 map service

All that is old is new again, with Amazon reannouncing its A9 mapping service which presents searchers with photos of the city blocks surrounding a particular address.
In case you haven’t seen it yet: A9 Maps
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July 1st, 2005

Amazon Sued for Copyright Infringement

A porn site is suing Amazon, accusing the company of copyright infringement for displaying thousands of the sites porn images in A9.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Perfect 10 Inc. is seeking an injunction against Amazon and unspecified damages.
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June 30th, 2005

Map Mania

Following hot on the heels of Google’s release of an API for Google Maps, Yahoo! has announced the same for its map service, and A9 has launched a mapping service as well. Stupid thing is they are all competing for the same US market, when are some of them going to realise that a map […]

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December 2nd, 2004

Amazon’s Holiday Pi

Fool.com is reporting that Amazon is leveraging discounts on Amazon.com products in an attempt to get more users for the A9 search engine.
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