A9, a superior search page?

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A9, a superior search page?

Alan posted about a new search site today, A9.com.

It’s been about a Google years since I got interested or even raised an eyebrow at a new search engine, but this one is worth a click. If I can scan the docs right, it is “powered by Amazon” (uses Amazon logins and likely for looking among books). Yup just clicked the A9 sign in link, and was prompted for my Amazon.com user name, the sanem familiar Amazon interface. Niiiiiice integration.

And A9 uses Guru.net for looking up reference queries, it uses Google for doing web and Image searches. Internet Movie Database provides movie results. Alexa comes into play somewhere- I think for the recommending or “Discover” feature. Accounts allow you to save searches or recall a search history, and I think add notes via a “diary”

I have to admit, I think he’s right. A9 really is something else. I usually use google for my searches anyway. Over the last few years I’ve really turned google searches into a science. So I love the fact that it does it’s web searches and image searches through google. The interface is easy, it’s really convenient, and it can be your default search in the upper right for Firefox. Not only that, but it saves a history of your searches, which is pretty cool. I highly reccomend you take a look at it.