Amazon has just launched the latest search engine, called A9, which provides users with search engine results and results from Amazon's 'Search Inside the Book™' technology. This technology provides users with results from Amazon itself and in some cases displays results from a given page in a book. The search engine results come from Google, which also provides sponsorhip links and Google Adwords. Much like Google and Yahoo! users can download the A9 toolbar:
The search toolbar features some nifty tools:
1. Search facility (Google and Amazon products)
2. The standard pop-up box blocker
3. Diary - so that you can leave notes on sites you have visited
4. Site history
One of the best tools is the site info button (a possible must-have toy) for Internet Marketers, which gives you information on where people who have visited the site you are viewing have also gone to (it uses Alexa technology) and some basic site stats. On viewing the Seth Godin blog, I was able to pick up the following site information:
At first glance this looks like a wonderful tool - anything that can utilise Google's search technology with enhanced features such as books and 'site info' can't be bad at all.
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