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New Search Engine

Google’s got competition. Amazon subsidiary A9 has started up a new search engine that offers you a lot of extra features, including offering internal book marking, commenting, etc. on the pages you search, for future reference. You can also toggle what you’re looking for on the right side of the screen. So you can look for books, web pages, images, movies, etc.

You register an account and then everything you do is remembered (which is kind of cool, because it means you can go back to the pages that you want to look at again). I don’t know if what it finds can rival Google, but it might be an interesting alternative search engine to use when Google isn’t giving you what you want, or you want to start performing searches that might require multiple pages (as you can always go back, right?).

The tools on the internet are improving, I’ll give you that, now I just want to see actual AI that will do the damned searching for you, just pop in some vague instructions and it comes back with the data you’re looking for. Imagine the time that would save! (Hey, we can all dream, can’t we?)

Oh yeah, here is an article about it from the New York Times.

posted by Symbol @ 17.9.04