[Sigia-l] Amazon, the search engine

[Marcia Morante]

This sounds like a fasinating tool, Livia.  Wouldn't it be great to be able
to use this with an organization's internal search engine in addition to the
mother ships, Amazon and Google?

mm

Marcia Morante
KCurve, Inc.
(718)881-5915 - office
(917)821-2087 - mobile
http://kcurve.com
Effective Content Management for the Web


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
> Livia Labate
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:38 PM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> 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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