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A9 Reviews

The importance of interface
May 31, 2005 04:13 PM3479 Views

A9 has a comprehensive, all-encompassing interface to their search engine. My friends seem to feel it is clunky, but I think the interface provides more value than the clutter takes away.


Yes, it presents a lot of information, but it does a good job of structuring it. It categorizes the results in ways a lay searcher is most likely to be interested in. For someone doing research on a topic, the static set of tabs may not be the categorization he wanted, but 90% of searchers will like this interface. People will also like not having to do multiple round-trips to do other types of searches even if the overall search is slower, because the results become visible incrementally. A9 will also increase the usage of specialized searches because of this interface.


The fact that A9 maintains personal search history is pretty cool. It often happens to me that I remember searching for an Austrian painter, but I don't recall enough text about him to be able to replicate the search. Reference search is a good idea which the other SEs do not seem to have.


The killer is, of course, book search. Google Print has also done a good job in this area, but for A9/Amazon it drives direct revenue... and with much higher ratios than sponsored results do for other SEs. A9 bolds the entire book titles (along with bylines and subtitles), which are much longer than web page titles; on a results pages, the books will attract most of the user's attention after images. You can see the strategy at work in movies results - since those go to IMDB they are not bolded. Even worse, they are in smaller font than the other results. Obviously, A9 will do tests to see how much users will mind them going directly to Amazon, and THEN movie results will be bolded too.


The diary feature is good because when people start making notes about sites and about their history, and mail those notes to each other and comment on each other's notes, and maybe have the entire thing automatically published as a blog, the SE will get very sticky. However, I suspect, not many people will actually use it beyond a point, unless A9 come up with a very specific search for the combination of diary-n-history!


Privacy is going to be a big issue, because A9 is being very aggressive about making user identity persistent. Their toolbar, for example, requires you to be logged on. The toolbar will also log all URLs that you visit from that browser. It also copies everything you search in another SE to its own search input box. Amazon offers a share of the pi to those of its users who use A9 actively. Obviously, the user has to be signed in during his A9 use to avail of the pi/2 % discount.


I had suspected that A9 would have the same number of searches as Yahoo and Google in a year, but both the established search engines have already released equivalent features. The most interesting thing to me is that ALL of A9's innovations are just interface features. The fact that they can improve the value of a tool, purely by tweaking the interface, to the point that it becomes an application, so many years after everyone thought that the tool was mature enough to be a commodity, is impressive and inspiring.


YASE, Yet Another Search Engine
Apr 05, 2005 12:09 PM3634 Views

It is https://a9.com, it is from Amazon ;)


Well the page looks simple but the result page is heavily loaded with Web Results and Image results, this is the default behavior, I would prefer the default behavior to be just web Results, since the right column of the result page has options to enable other results like (Image,Movies,Books etc). But it is nice to see a close link to close a column which a user is not interested in.


About the results page here are few noticeable features : You can directly search for a term by adding it at the end of the URL:


Example: To search for mouth shut simple type https://a9.com/mouth shut, you would directly get the web results.


The other notable feature is the key stats about a result, if you move over Site Info button you get these stats like: Traffic Rank,Sites that link here,Speed and The site on-line since Other common features like Cache page,News result at the top of the web results are seen in other Search engines.


This is what you see at the bottom of the Search results page '' Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by a9.com and Alexa''


The Books and Movie search are good (for US users) A9 also has a Toolbar and few personalized search options for registered users.


Overall I would say a good new search engine, more updates to come :)


SAVE AND TRACK UR SEARCHES!!!
Sep 22, 2004 08:30 PM4072 Views

Here I am right back with my new tech. Review on A9.COM ..it is really a great search engine with lots of features .Surely people will like it after raeading this review!!!


a9.com does searching with its own search engine but web Search Results are enhanced by Google....., with Alexa Internet providing help in search history and Site Info....Then some may think then what is use of such a search engine which gets help from other search engine for its search.....


The real use comes in the form of tracking and saving the searches which might be useful for researchers who themselves keep searching the net for their studies ....not only tracking but many features are embedded in it ..if u read the remaining part of this review ..u would feel the difference ....


SALIENT FEATURES:


TRACKING THE SEARCH:


If you have not seen a specific website (URL) in your search results before, you will see it marked by [ New ]. If you have seen the result before, and have visited it, you will see when you last visited that site (for example, [ Clicked 1 month ago ] or [ Clicked 2 hours ago ]).


SITE'S TRAFFIC RANK :


This is not a needed one ..but might help u in knowing its popularity among the masses.You get the site?s Traffic Rank (lower numbers are more popular), the average speed of the site, how long the site has been active, and other sites that are related to this site in some way.


SITE INFO:


Site Info provides additional information about a web site. You can use this information to decide if you want to visit a website. You can also use it to discover related sites


SAVE PREFERENCES:


This will help u to save the search for future use ...certainly the brilliant feature of this search site.


SEARCHING UR OWN INFORMATION :(This feature can be availed only if u have signed in. )


This is good feature which helps u to search in ur own saved information ,searches,dairy,bookmarks,history.


Bookmarks:These are bookmarks which u make thru a9.com (signed member)or a9 search toolbar stored not in ur computer but in their servers.


Dairy :This one helps us to take notes on web pages ...and can be accessed from anywhere in this world thru--https://diary.a9.com/


History:Stores history of searched items in ur account


Content filter:Prevents adult content .


Customisation:Adding ur own colours ....


EXTRA EXTERNAL FEATURES!!


IMAGE SEARCH:


It is enhanced by google.com...it shows 20 picture at a time ..but its configurable


BOOK SEARCH :


Amazon.com provides results for books , giving access to the sample pages and full text of over 100,000 books. But credit card number has to be given without fail.


MOVIE SEARCH:


The Internet Movie Database the worlds largest source of information about actors, movies, and the people who make them provides movie search results....... With information on over 400,000 titles and 1.5 million people.


REFERENCE SEARCH:


GuruNet provides reference search facility with information on over 750,000 topics. GuruNet has compiled reference database, with all knowledge about encyclopedias, glossaries, and dictionaries.


Those who use google frequently might like this search and get addicted to it ..not only becoz of its great features but also coz its features like track and save can be accessed from anywhere in this world ...which google and other search sites lack!!!


a9.com also provides toolbar which has all the salient features explained here !!!!


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