Comments on: A9 Launches "Open Search" – Vertical Search, Syndicated

By: TramadoL14873

TramadoL14873 — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:30:04 +0000

I just don’t have anything to say right now. I haven’t been up to anything recently, but it’s not important. I’ve just been sitting around waiting for something to happen, but shrug.

By: TramadoL42177

TramadoL42177 — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:31:47 +0000

I’ve just been staying at home not getting anything done. I guess it doesn’t bother me. Shrug. I haven’t been up to anything. I haven’t gotten much done today.

By: TramadoL60227

TramadoL60227 — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:24:10 +0000

I’ve more or less been doing nothing worth mentioning, but eh. My life’s been really bland today. I don’t care. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me these days. That’s how it is.

By: TramadoL5135

TramadoL5135 — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:30:33 +0000

I haven’t gotten anything done today. I feel like a fog, but what can I say? I’ve just been letting everything wash over me lately, not that it matters. Shrug.

By: Kaka2151

Kaka2151 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:49:55 +0000

I’ve just been hanging out not getting anything done. What can I say? I’ve basically been doing nothing worth mentioning, but pfft. Not that it matters. Pretty much nothing exciting happening to speak of. I haven’t been up to much these days.

By: Kaka25988

Kaka25988 — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:45:24 +0000

I’ve just been staying at home not getting anything done. I’ve basically been doing nothing worth mentioning. My life’s been pretty unremarkable these days. Eh.

By: Search Engine

Search Engine — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:32:25 +0000

I like how A9's search URL strings get turned into nice neat URL like http://www.a9.com/sirseek instead of messy http://google.ca/custom/?q=sirseek type of URLs/links...

By: Russell Glass

Russell Glass — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:15:20 +0000

Suggestion for A9: Just like graphic equalizers often have presets for Jazz, Country and Rock, A9 should create high-value meta search presets such as “Celebrities.” In this example, the preset would combine results from the relevant Celebrity verticals like Web, Images, Movies, etc… Even though the user can theoretically do this manually, this would quickly and efficiently demonstrate the value of a single keyword vertical search, and may convince users to use A9 when their topic matches one of the presets.

By: Eric Elia

Eric Elia — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:35:21 +0000

While this A9 feature is nice, I find myself organically adopting the Firefox plug-in module. Quietly, there's been a boomlet in little search widgets that extend Firefox's built-in search box at the top-right. I've got IMDB, LinkedIn, Yahoo Finance and Citysearch right there. Very convenient and habit-forming.

Will be interesting to see how many of these verticals Google makes obsolete. Movies, Maps, Stocks are all built-in and don't require a special plug-in. Try a vertical search in an area that doesn't exist yet on Google, like a flight search. Even those look to be in development.

By: Hashim

Hashim — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:41:57 +0000

cool, cool stuff. It makes me want to build a search engine just it can be included.

But a big question for me is this- how can these search engines who adopt this new rss support the bandwidth hit from all these queries?