Daily Archive for April 29th, 2004

A9 from Amazon.com

Amazon.com launched its own search engine called A9, thus becoming the latest entrant in the domain dominated by Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Some salient features which might score it on other search engines are:

URL Short Cuts: At A9.com you can search directly from the browser URL box by typing:

a9.com/query

History: Keep track of the last sites visited (on any computer) and your most recent searches. It will keep track of the Web pages you recently visited–even if you switch computers.

Diary: This is the newest and coolest feature. You can take notes on any web page, and reference them whenever you visit that page, on any computer that you use. Your entries are automatically saved whenever you stop typing or when you go to another page.