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September 15, 2004
Udi release A9.com today
As you may recall, I saw Udi speak at the University of Washington last November. It's going to be interesting to see how much is in the 1.0 release of the A9.com search engine. According to the New York Times
The new service goes much further, adding the ability to organize and retrieve past searches. The idea is to make searching more useful by making it easier to remember where a Web browser has gone before."The ability to search through your own history of personal Web searches is insanely powerful," said John Battelle, a writer and consultant who is the organizer of the Web 2.0 conference to be in San Francisco next month. "This is a big deal,'' Mr. Battelle said. "But the question is will people get the habit of using it?"
The new A9 search page permits users to search the Web and simultaneously retrieve related information from Google's search results and its image search service, reference material from the GuruNet service and additional information from the Internet Movie Database.
A9 executives said that the new version of the service was simply a first release and that the company had extensive plans for adding new capabilities.
"This is just version 1.0," said Mr. Manber. "There is a lot more to come."
I can see this being a useful tool for students trying to keep track of web pages used in research.
Posted by michael at September 15, 2004 10:20 AM
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