a9.com launches

Friday September 17, 2004 at 1:28 am | Filed under On the Web

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On Wednesday a site called a9.com was launched. It’s pretty cool. It’s a search engine, a lot like Google (part of it’s even powered by Google), but it takes things a step further. It does a much better job integrating search results with web traffic, referrers, photos, category filters, and more. Google does most of this under the hood too, but not with such a simple interface. The a9 company that built the site is a subsidiary of Amazon which you can tell from the logo.

I searched for “Joe Popp” and not only does my web site come up first, but within the list of photos that come up are two pictures of my livingroom! woah! I searched with the full names of a lot of people I know and I was really impressed with the results. Try it out on your full name and you could be staring at a picture of yourself!

Could this be the next revolutionary search engine?

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  1. Arlen Says:
    September 17th, 2004 at 10:21 am

    I think I saw this site a few months ago–maybe in the Beta stage? Nice living room, by the way!

  2. Wayne Says:
    September 17th, 2004 at 8:35 pm

    Interesting new search engine… I also saw “Joe Popp the Band.” Thats pretty cool. You should get one of their t-shirts. I wish I had a band named after me… There is Fountians of Wayne and another band called Bishop Allen, but no Wayne Allen the Band.

  3. Joe Says:
    September 18th, 2004 at 1:03 pm

    Yeah, I’ve been in contact with that guy, I have a CD and a shirt. I’ve actually used the shirt as ID before!

  4. Jon Says:
    September 18th, 2004 at 1:43 pm

    You run the Planet Porno web site??? That’s the first two links I got. I scanned through seven pages of results and never did see this site. I did a search on Power Pop Radio and powerpopradio.com didn’t come up in the first four pages of results. Hmm….

  5. Joe Says:
    September 18th, 2004 at 2:43 pm

    Were there people doin it in my living room on that search too?

    hmm… not sure how you’re spelling my name, or how you found out about my moonlighting gig ;-)