Amazon’s search engine A9 is looking really good. I’m on a 9600 connection through my cell phone and Google just wouldn’t come up when I needed to check something. I remembered a9.com and how you could just type the search in after the domain. It was faster than Google and I found what I was looking for.
Will it have any effect whatsoever on Google’s dominance? Will Microsoft swap out Trident for Gecko?
Last I heard A9 was powered by Google.
It is powered by Google, but I’m not sure how the sped up the engine.
A9 uses 5 sources for its results as per http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=875
It isn’t faster than Google – it runs on Google’s own server farms. You probably just experienced routing issues with Google when making the comparison.
FYI, Google get 50% of all revenue a9.com pulls in.
Thank you Dan @ Amazon for clearing that up. 🙂
Might want to remember http://www.google.com/palm for when you’re on a slow connection like that. I’ve been in a few spots where I’ve needed it as well.
Too bad the A9 toolbar is IE-only. WTF are they thinking with that?