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Amazon unveils Google search rival
News Amazon.com has officially taken the wraps off its Internet search engine, joining the contest to unseat number one provider Google. A9.com, an independent unit of the Internet retailer, released a new version of its Web site late on Tuesday night.
[September 15, 2004, 11:35]
Google and Amazon tussle for talent
News Google and Amazon.com are fighting for top computer scientists on Google's home turf: search results. When Web surfers use Google to search on the name "Udi Manber," who is president of Amazon's newly formed search unit, A9.com, they'll find the...
[September 29, 2003, 10:35]
A9 Search Advance
Downloads With "A9 Search Advance" you'll be able to search Amazon.com's search engine A9.com - featuring OpenSearchTM Technology. You can select one or more sources by checking it's checkbox and you'll retrieve results / information in...
[November 21, 2005, 7:00]
Amazon slips into search waters
News Amazon.com has quietly launched a test version of its long-awaited search engine, aiming to challenge industry stalwarts Google and Yahoo with new tools to navigate the Web. A9.com, an independent unit of the Internet retailer, unveiled its Web...
[April 15, 2004, 8:20]
Amazon's A9 releases toolbar for Firefox
News Amazon.com subsidiary A9.com on Monday released a version of its Internet toolbar for the Firefox Web browser. A9 said the toolbar, which is available for free download, will offer the same features to users of the Mozilla open-source software as...
[November 2, 2004, 8:19]
A9 searches for purpose
News Internet search giant Google has snatched Udi Manber, the chief executive of Amazon.com's A9 subsidiary, causing some experts to question the future of the e-commerce company's search efforts. A9 is a general Web search site, like the more popular...
[February 10, 2006, 11:30]
Windows XP Hacks: Build Your Own Firefox Search Engine
White Papers So, instead of using Google to search the Internet, for example, one can use Ask Jeeves (http://www.ask.com) or A9 (http://www.a9.com). Take a look at the upper-right corner of the Firefox browser. The user will see a nifty search box called the...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
A9 Toolbar review
Reviews Once the toolbar is installed on IE or Firefox, the first time you use A9, you'll need to either sign in to your Amazon.com account or create a new A9 account (only an email address is required). Installing the A9 Toolbar is easy; it takes less...
[January 7, 2005, 14:20]
Google launches online mapping service
News Even Amazon.com has gotten into the game, offering a service through its A9.com search unit that shows digital photos of storefronts in its US business listings. In its latest play in the ongoing search wars, Google on Tuesday quietly launched a...
[February 8, 2005, 14:45]
Google readying Web-only video search
News In turn, the search engines drive traffic to Reuters.com, which is trying to become a news destination site supported by online advertising. Even Amazon.com's search unit, A9.com, is eyeing up the video search market, according to one source.
[June 14, 2005, 12:50]
Google not going to enter browser market
News Many executives from the Internet's early days (or version 1.0 as the conference would have it) -- Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Broadcast.com's Mark Cuban, Idealab's Bill Gross -- were here to give their visions of the future and new technologies that...
[October 6, 2004, 9:15]
GuruNet launches search service
News Now, after an unsuccessful foray into the enterprise search market, the company has returned to its consumer roots by retiring its subscription service in favour of an advertising-supported revenue model and launching Answers.com, a Web site that...
[January 4, 2005, 8:35]
Pornography site files suit against Google
News Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story. Perfect 10's lawsuit against Google is similar to one it filed against Amazon.com...
[August 26, 2005, 15:10]
Google Toolbar review
Reviews You can also search for stock quotes -- Google sends you to Yahoo Finance for that -- and dictionary entries through Dictionary.com, but there's no weather search. Installing Google's 463KB toolbar was a piece of cake in our tests; it took us about...
[January 7, 2005, 14:25]
BetterSearch
Downloads An extension for Firefox which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, Answers.com (web results), AllTheWeb, Dogpile.com, del.icio.us and Simpy.com bookmarks by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon...
[August 30, 2005, 8:00]
bonSearch
Downloads AltaVista, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, dmoz, A9, Webcrawler and Amazon.com. Allows you to choose between and search in ten search engines and the information database of Wikipedia. You can search in Google, Yahoo!
[June 29, 2005, 8:00]
How does Google do it?
News They include an award-winning physician, a pioneer of the Internet, the head of Amazon.com's A9 search unit, the former head of Microsoft's research group in China and an ex-top Windows architect. Over the last two years, Google has lured some of...
[February 28, 2006, 12:10]
Amazon opens up texts
News Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a new service that lets bookworms search through selected pages of thousands of books available on its online store. Amazon has been showing a greater interest in search, recently forming A9.com, an independent unit...
[October 24, 2003, 15:00]
Google trials text search
News Google has started letting people search text within books, following similar strides from retail behemoth Amazon.com. It recently formed A9.com -- an independent unit to develop e-commerce search technology -- in an attempt to gain a foothold in...
[December 18, 2003, 8:40]
Yahoo announces personal search feature
News Yahoo is joining rivals Google, Amazon.com's A9 and Ask Jeeves in the pursuit to personalise Web search and own a greater portion of individuals' Internet experience. Yahoo wants to let you spin your own piece of the Web.
[October 5, 2004, 9:30]
