Amazon A9 search engine

[12noon]

http://a9.com/
Looks like another big search engine will hit the net soon.
The above link is still in beta.
 
Also try generic.A9.com
BTW this isn't just a book search !

Search
Search Inside the Book™: In addition to web search results we present book results from Amazon.com that include Search Inside the Book. When you see an excerpt on any of the book results, click on the page number to see the actual page from that book. (You will need to be registered at Amazon.com.)

Adjustable Columns: Simply drag the boundaries between the columns either to the left or the right to change their width of the different result sets (web, books, history). You can also close any column at any time. The next search will remember these new settings (if you allow cookies). This feature currently does not work on all browsers (but we're working on it!).

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

      a9.com/query

Search History: All your searches at A9.com are stored on our servers and shown to you at any time from any computer you use. Clicking on a link performs the search again. You can hide the window at any time and a password will be required to open it again. You can edit your history, for example, to hide an entry.

Click History: If any of the web search results include a site that you have seen before, it's marked on the result. We even tell you the last time you visited that site.

Site Info: Place the cursor on one of the Site Info buttons to see a lot more information about that site without leaving the search result page.

Web Search: Web search results are provided by Google.


A9 Toolbar
Web Search: Search the web and Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book™ results. You can also do searches on Amazon.com, the Internet Movie Database, Google, and look up words in a dictionary and thesaurus.

Search Highlighter: The toolbar will automatically highlight your search terms in a light yellow. By using the highlighter menu, you can see how many times your search terms appear on the page, and jump to each occurrence of a specific word. Hint: You don't have to do a search to use the highlighter. Just type one or more words in the search box and click the highlight button.

Your History: Keep track of your 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 (we think) coolest feature of the toolbar. 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.

Site Info: See information about the website you are visiting, including related links, site statistics (including traffic rank), sites linking to this site, and user ranking. Select from the menu to go to the site's page on Amazon.com where you can get more information and write a review about the site.

Pop-up Blocker: Stop those annoying pop-up ads.

[Hope]

I am not impressed. They are using alexa information for this search engine. Alexa isn't accurate. Alexa information is based off of Alexa user data, not real internet data.

[12noon]

Hmmm, see what you mean. It is still BETA though.
 

[SensoVision]

thanks for news, Graham! I thought that Alexa and Amazon should come up with something... actually I thought that they will base search engine ranking on the Alexa data although from performing some searches seems that it isn't influence SERPs a lot... data used there still come from Google although it's a bit different(which could be caused by using different datacenter or some differences in algo).

[Dug]

Woot. Another Search engine mindlessly spewing forth Google results.
Why does this need to be in beta?

The differences you see between Google and A9 SensoVision, are probably due to Google attempting some sort of IP based Geotargetting and A9 not having the capability or the will to do it. The results are identical from where I look from.

Still, they may get around to going their own algo and search index eventually. But at the moment there is nothing impressive about using Google's API.

Dug