April 15, 2004

Who's the daddy So Amazon launches it's new Search Engine. Playing around with it, noticed that if you hover over the site info button, it shows you the traffic rank for the site. So who's the daddy?

Google comes in 3rd place. Microsoft comes in a lowly eighth. MSN steals the 2nd place spot, whilst the first listing for Porn only gets a league status of 5993. So come on Monkeys who's the daddy at Number 1. As a sidenote we trail the blue by a staggering 815,000 places.

posted by lloyder 20 years ago
  • Yahoo is on top.
  • click the traffic link and write a review!! . . . MuwAHahAhahAhahahahahaaaaaaa!! /Dr._Evil
  • Take a look at the reviews for Yahoo. Half of them are spam for other websites.
  • MoFi's not doing too badly -- our daily traffic ranking is only 280,000th. Heh. We can only go up! It's sort of amusing how easily amazon has converted its shopping features to a search site. Reviews, ratings, and a "users of $site also view these sites" function. Classy, really. And I like the fact that you can just put your search string on the URL, since you don't get the luxury of a google search box on your address bar.
  • That more than anything, I love about a9. URL based searches are brilliant. And they do have a toolbar trac- it's got some nifty features. Annotation! Shame it's not on Safari.
  • well, when i search for my personal website's subject matter i come out on top. so clearly the site info is good and unbiased. (it makes me giggle when people send me "increase your web search engine ranking" spam. you can't go higher than #1 in google, dude. how did i do it? same site since '95 - on a rather quirky topic - but until i went and redesigned for web standards i was consistently around #3. web standards - it really does work!)
  • This website breaks the "Back" button. This website is not cool.
  • How does it break the Back button? Back button works for me...
  • Works fine for me too, BBF. And the site is a very nice shade of pink.
  • Goes well with the lavender.
  • I'm quite liking this. It has Search Inside the Book, which is already cool and can only get cooler, while the Diary looks like it might be very nice indeed... especially if you used it in conjunction with, say, Furl. And the obvious extension of the "users of $site also visited..." will be personal reccomendations, which could be every bit as brilliant/funny/annoying (delete as appropriate) as their reccomendations for books and CDs are. Back button still alive and kicking, btw.
  • Oh. Well, uh, maybe it's just Firebird or something then. Uh... ..Yeah.
  • Huh, it's taken me till now to realise that this is just google with amazon's code over the top. I was wondering why the search results were so similar. It's still cool, though.
  • John Battelle's Searchblog has been covering the introduction of a9 recently and there have been both positive and negative things to say about it. Personally, they'll have to pry Google out of my cold dead hands.
  • Nothing from a9 works on Firebird. Stupid Amazon.
  • Since the Amazon infraestructure is on UNIX you won't have to wait too much before they implement the Firebird version. One question, I would like to use the A9 toolbar and all the nifty stuff that's only available through login, and I have already an Amazon account. But I'm afraid of all the information collecting since the last amazon scare. How much personal information you believe could A9 cookies or the toolbar could collect, apart from billing information which they already have.
  • Apparantly the EFF is calling A9's privacy policies stronger than googles.
  • I tried searching for the sites linking to my site and noticed the results were identical to what google returns. Then I noticed: "Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by A9.com, Alexa, and Amazon.com."
  • That's not so surprising, morris. The nifty thing is how they have really enhanced the whole searching experience.
  • It's the interface, not the search that has me swooning.