{"id":14221,"date":"2004-04-15T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/amazon-joins-the-search-engine-game\/"},"modified":"2004-04-15T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T11:33:00","slug":"amazon-joins-the-search-engine-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/amazon-joins-the-search-engine-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Joins The Search Engine Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com has thrown its hat into the search engine ring with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A9.com Search Technologies<\/a>.  It looks like it has help, though, as my first query noted that &ldquo;Search results [are] enhanced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a>. Results also provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A9.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect-home\/andrewchorney\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>.&rdquo;  My initial impression of the admittedly beta site is that it&rsquo;s not all that great, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battellemedia.com\/archives\/000575.php\" target=\"_blank\">some disagree<\/a>.  Looking at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a9.com\/-\/company\/whatsCool.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;7 Reasons to Use A9.com,&rdquo;<\/a> the only compelling distinction over other search engines was the capability to search the text of books via amazon.com&rsquo;s extensive database.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/toolbar.a9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A9 toolbar<\/a> seems to be almost a direct copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google toolbar<\/a>, including the fact that it only works with Internet Explorer.  I guess I&rsquo;ll experiment with it a little, but for now I&rsquo;m not sure A9 has anything to offer over Google, by far my favorite search engine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108202883976715246?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com has thrown its hat into the search engine ring with A9.com Search Technologies. It looks like it has help, though, as my first query noted that &ldquo;Search results [are] enhanced by Google. Results also provided by A9.com, Alexa, and Amazon.com.&rdquo; My initial impression of the admittedly beta site is that it&rsquo;s not all that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/amazon-joins-the-search-engine-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Joins The Search Engine Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}