{"id":2421,"date":"2004-04-15T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T07:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/15\/amazons-a9\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:45:06","slug":"amazons-a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/15\/amazons-a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s A9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\" title=\"Amazon\">Amazon<\/a> just launched <a href=\"http:\/\/a9.com\/\" title=\"A9\">A9<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a>-based search engine, choosing to break the news via <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/000575.php\" title=\"John Batelle's Searchblog: NEWS: A9, Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live: Reverberations Felt in Valley\">John Batelle&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A9, Amazon&#8217;s much discussed skunk works search project goes live today, so I can finally write about it. I saw it last month (caveat: unbeknownst to me until recently, Amazon targeted me as their conduit to break this news &#8211; I think they wanted it to move from the blogosphere out, as opposed the WSJ in) and had to keep the damn thing to myself, it was hard, and here&#8217;s why: On first blush it&#8217;s a very, very good service, and an intriguing move by Amazon. It raises a clear question: How will Google &#8211; and more broadly, the entire search-driven world &#8211; react?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/04\/14\/a9_amazons_new_searc.html\" title=\"Amazon's new search engine\">Boing Boing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/04\/04\/a9\" title=\"kottke.org: A9\">Jason Kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Ill Flower&#8221; by Future Sound of London, The from the album <em>Lifeforms<\/em> (1994, 3:24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting: Amazon just launched A9, a Google-based search engine, choosing to break the news via John Batelle&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[58,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}