[Sigia-l] Amazon, the search engine

[Samantha Bailey]

A9 has a feature I've longed for--the ability to take notes on a webpage and
return to them--a librarians (if not an IA's) dream. :)


Samantha Bailey | samantha at baileysorts.com
http://www.baileysorts.com





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Livia Labate" <liv at livlab.com>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:38 PM
Subject: [Sigia-l] Amazon, the search engine


> http://www.a9.com/
>
> "A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve
> search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and
> operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., A9.com opened its Palo Alto,
> California, doors in October 2003. A9.com's technology will power search
on
> Amazon.com and other web sites."
>
> I like the search history feature. I would love to hear your feedback on
the
> use of tabs in the search results. It's the 'tabs as lenses' idea
Christina
> Wodtke talks about here http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/002711.html.
But
> I guess you can always expect tabs from Amazon... ;)
>
> I'm a bit puzzled over the sponsored links. I searched for "information
> architect" and got "Over 12,000 House Plans House, Cottage, Multi Family
and
> Garage Plans - Ready to Build" humm.... what happened to controlled
> vocabularies?
>
> -LL
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