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Amazon.com Launches A9.com Web Search Subsidiary

Amazon.com says that the new Web search engine makes it easy to manage and organize search results. Alas, for registered users only.

A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., today launched A9.com to make searching the Internet more effective. The new site, which builds on a beta test version that began earlier this year, helps users discover information from several different sources, makes it easy to manage and organize their search results, and remembers what they have done in the past.

A9.com offers users search results from five powerful information sources, which are presented through convenient selectable and adjustable columns: Web and image search provided by Google, book text of more than 100,000 titles from Amazon.com’s Search Inside The Book, movie information from the Internet Movie Database, and reference information (encyclopedia, dictionary, etc.) through GuruNet.com. Additionally, A9.com is a search engine with a memory as it returns results from the user’s information, so with every search, users will see results from their own history, bookmarks, and diary.

Every time a user returns to A9.com and is signed in to their account, the site recognizes them, remembers what they searched in the past and displays features that help them manage and organize their information. A9.com was specifically designed to be at its best when combined with the A9 Toolbar, which is easy to download from a convenient link located in the upper right corner of the A9.com site. With the toolbar running, A9.com users can quickly find any site they have ever visited – in addition to their previous searches.

The following features help A9.com users effectively manage their online search: