__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Monday 02 October 2006 21:23 \__
> Just seen tehe following:
>
> Search Briefs: So Long to A9's Block Level Imagery, Yellow Pages, Toolbar
> and Amazon.com Discount; Yahoo to Open Yahoo Mail API
>
>
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/01/search-briefs-a9-discontinues-many-features-yahoo-to-open-yahoo-mail-api/
>
> Their toolbar is probably b0rked (I have noticed oddities for a few
> weeks/months), registration/signin has been dodgy for a while, thumbnails
> are no longer delivered (not even as a service to, e.g. BetterSearch in
> Firefox), and Alexa rank pages are gone, only to be replaced by some
> adverts. I don't know about the Amazon/Alexa toolbars, but they could be
> headed down the same path. I am only speculating this.
>
> FWIW, A9 dropped Google as its search engine and probably accepted $ome
> deal for Microsoft to use Live/MSN instead. That was only a few months ago.
> This was probably the end of it serving as a neat search engine with
> simultaneous image, Web, and video search. It certainty lost its quality
> results and uniqueness.
>
> I wonder if others have noticed something similar. I have disabled my
> toolbars for the time being as it looks grimmer than suggested. Well,
> there's always Netcraft.
Oh, more details now emerge.
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20061002A9SearchEmbracesLiveFeatures.html
A9 Search Embraces Live Features
Nails on the coffin....
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