A9.com my favorite search engine

Posted by Nick Loadholtes on 9/29/2005 filed in Blogging, Web

I was looking at the stats for this site the other day and it hit me: almost no one got here from A9. that stuck me as odd because I really like A9 (its a search engine from Amazon that uses Google’s technology, but they have put their own spin on it). I did some digging and I saw that A9 doesn’t rank real high on the search engine ueage rankings.

That makes me sad. I really like A9. It has a good UI, its always fast, and being able to search for web pages and pictures at the same time just ricks. Plus not to mention you get a small discount on Amazon for using A9. And since its powered by Google, you’re getting almost the same results. What’s not to like?

So go check it out! A9 rocks!


3 Responses to “A9.com my favorite search engine”

  1. Sage Says:
    October 7th, 2005 at 12:42 pm

    I like A9 too (that’s how I got here), but I find that it is never fast. That’s really the main reason why I only use it occasionally to keep my Amazon discount.

  2. Nick Says:
    October 7th, 2005 at 5:43 pm

    I’ve noticed some times it is slower than normal (whereas Google always seems to be fast), but that hasn’t really bothered me too much. I was thinking about it the other day and I think the reason I really like using it is to see what pictures it thinks matches my query. Sometimes (usually while looking for something python related) it will pull up a pretty wacky set of pictures.

  3. Possibility And Probability » Amazon, the Mechanical Turk, and the future Says:
    November 8th, 2005 at 7:57 am

    [...] I’ve ranted about A9 before, I use their associates program, hell, I even use their Tip Jar system. Suffice it to say I think Amazon is pretty cool. Now they have introduced this Mechanical Turk website. [...]

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