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a9 com wikipedia 328 captures 28 may 2004 20 sep 2026 aug sep oct 09 2021 2022 2023 success fail about this capture timestamps the wayback machine http web archive org web 20220909003610 https en wikipedia org wiki a9 com a9 com from wikipedia the free encyclopedia jump to navigation jump to search subsidiary of amazon based in palo alto california a9 com inc a9 com office in palo alto ca type search engine industry communications founded 2004 founder udi manber 1 headquarters palo alto california parent amazon website a9 com a9 com is a former subsidiary of amazon that develops search engine and search advertising technology a9 is based in palo alto california with teams in seattle bangalore beijing dublin iași munich and tokyo a9 has development efforts in areas of product search cloud search visual search augmented reality advertising technology and community question answering contents 1 history 2 past projects 2 1 a9 com search portal 2 2 opensearch 2 3 blockview 2 4 clickriver 2 5 community question answering 2 6 cloudsearch 3 recent projects 3 1 product search 3 2 visual search 3 3 advertising technology 4 references 5 external links history edit a9 a subsidiary of amazon com was founded in 2003 with an exclusive focus on producing technology for search and advertising they moved into the building previously used by the dec systems research center in palo alto california one purpose of a9 com was to leverage algorithms and the name was chosen as a numeronym to represent that word i e a 9 other letters the office was in silicon valley near stanford university 2 under the direction of its first president udi manber a9 focused on several areas including the a9 com destination website product search and a search advertising platform some early a9 services such as search inside the book continued while others have been discontinued the a9 search engine powers product search for amazon com and several other ecommerce retailers in february 2006 manber was replaced by david l tennenhouse as president 3 in september 2006 william stasior one of a9 s founders and a former altavista and amazon com executive was named president in june 2009 a9 acquired snaptell which developed smartphone based visual search applications 4 stasior left in october 2012 to join apple inc to work on siri 5 brian pinkerton who had developed webcrawler in the 1990s became general manager of a9 in 2012 6 7 in 2019 after reporting from the wall street journal revealed that amazon had changed its search algorithm to favor more profitable products amazon took down the a9 com site and pointed the domain name to amazon s home page 8 past projects edit a9 com search portal edit a9 com originally operated a search portal along with an a9 toolbar which was first demonstrated on april 14 2004 9 the service featured some innovative design elements allowing users to choose from over 400 sources to search and view results in separate columns grouped by source in addition to web search results users could get product search results from amazon encyclopedia results from wikipedia movie information from imdb and others starting in september 2004 10 web search results were provided by different search engines over time the search portal functionality was discontinued in 2008 opensearch edit a9 developed a protocol called opensearch that enabled the plug in search source functionality from the a9 com portal the original specification opensearch 1 0 was released in march 2005 a9 made the protocol freely available through a creative commons license blockview edit a9 developed the first service that allowed users of maps and yellow pages a telephone directory to view buildings at street level called blockview the service was announced in january 2005 11 within a year the service included images for 24 us cities both blockview and maps as well as support for the a9 tool bar were discontinued in september 2006 12 clickriver edit in november 2006 a9 announced clickriver an advertising program that let third parties place advertisements on amazon com pages 13 clickriver focused primarily on products and services that complemented amazon s own offerings for example if a customer viewed a television on amazon a clickriver ad might offer installation services in his or her local area clickriver was discontinued in 2010 replaced by other amazon advertising programs community question answering edit a9 operated askville a community based question and answer site first tested in december 2006 service began in november 2007 14 compared with other question and answer sites askville focused more on social interaction allowing users to follow other users as well as track specific topics on october 25 2013 askville was shut down 15 cloudsearch edit cloudsearch is a managed amazon web services service that makes client data searchable 16 for example a business that wanted to allow customers to search their catalog could upload the catalog entries to cloudsearch and then route search requests from their application or web site to the service cloudsearch instances could be brought online as data or traffic volume demanded sites using cloudsearch included smugmug 17 and sage bionetworks 18 in march 2014 amazon moved away from using a9 for cloudsearch to technology based on apache solr 19 20 recent projects edit product search edit a9 continued to develop and operate the service that provides search on all nine amazon com sites as well as other retail sites owned by amazon such as endless com javari de and audible com in addition a9 search is also used by other retailers such as marks spencer 21 that license the amazon retail platform for their online presence a9 provided the search inside the book capability for amazon 22 announced in 2003 this service allows customers to search through the full text of hundreds of thousands of books this feature is available both for searching individual books and for the entire book catalog 23 visual search edit the visual search group at a9 created mobile applications that recognize objects and allow users to find these products on amazon com their first augmented reality app flow provided both object and barcode recognition it was released in 2011 24 25 a9 visual search technology powers features to let customers search for certain products such as shoes by shape and find visually similar items on amazon com zappos com endless com and other retail sites citation needed advertising technology edit a9 s advertising technology group began delivering sponsored link advertisements on the amazon com retail web site in 2003 and continued to manage this program for amazon properties a9 also invests in display advertising technology including technology for amazon s ad supported e reader the kindle with special offers citation needed references edit markoff john 15 sep 2004 amazon to take searches on web to a new depth ny times archived from the original on 2 march 2021 retrieved 18 february 2017 john battelle april 15 2004 can amazon unplug google business 2 0 archived from the original on april 16 2004 retrieved november 15 2016 google hires amazon executive the washington post february 9 2006 retrieved november 20 2016 leena rao june 16 2009 image recognition startup snaptell acquired by amazon subsidiary a9 com tech crunch retrieved november 15 2016 kara swisher october 15 2012 apple nabs amazon a9 exec stasior to run siri but does hire signal a bigger move into search all things d retrieved november 15 2016 leading leaders a9 management web page archived from the original on november 14 2016 retrieved november 15 2016 brid aine parnell december 18 2012 search engines we have known before google crushed them the register retrieved november 17 2016 mattioli dana september 16 2019 amazon changed search algorithm in ways that boost its own products the wall street journal retrieved september 16 2019 after the journal s inquiries amazon took down its a9 website which had stood for about a decade and a half gary price april 14 2004 amazon s much discussed a9 goes live resource shelf archived from the original on april 16 2004 retrieved november 15 2016 john markoff september 15 2004 amazon to take searches on web to a new depth new york times retrieved november 17 2016 kurt peters january 27 2005 yellow pages go visual with block view at amazon s a9 com digital commerce 360 retrieved january 28 2020 so long to a9 s block level imagery yellow pages tollbar and amazon com discount resource shelf october 1 2006 archived from the original on october 5 2006 retrieved november 19 2016 loren baker november 3 2006 amazon com s clickriver pay per click search advertising search engine journal retrieved november 15 2016 aarthi sivaraman november 29 2007 amazon launches askville com reuters archived from the original on august 23 2014 retrieved november 15 2016 dear askville community final web site archived from the original on january 10 2014 retrieved november 15 2016 timothy prickett morgan april 12 2012 amazon turns a9 search engine into a cloud service the register retrieved november 17 2016 smugmug s sexy new search smugmug blog april 12 2012 retrieved november 17 2016 michael kellen april 12 2012 on the shoulders of giants science reengineered blog archived from the original on april 27 2012 jeff barr march 24 2014 amazon cloudsearch even better searching for less than 100 month amazon web service blog amazon s cloudsearch gets solr powered lucidworks blog march 25 2014 marks spencer launches website in collaboration with amazon computer weekly march 23 2007 1 gary price amazon debuts new book search tool search engine watch october 26 2003 2 steven levy november 9 2003 welcome to history 2 0 newsweek by the daily beast archived from the original on may 6 2012 retrieved november 17 2016 will shanklin november 3 2011 flow for iphone is the product id app we have been waiting for geek com archived from the original on january 4 2012 retrieved november 17 2016 flow iphone app itunes retrieved november 17 2016 external links edit official website v t e amazon people current jeff bezos executive chairman andy jassy president and ceo werner vogels cto former rick dalzell paul davis tony hsieh christopher north ram shriram tom szkutak brian valentine facilities list of amazon locations doppler day 1 hq2 spheres bellevue 600 products and services subsidiaries a9 com abebooks alexa internet amazon games double helix games amazon lab126 amazon pharmacy amazon robotics amazon university esports annapurna labs audible blink home body labs book depository bookfinder comixology digital photography review freevee fresh goodreads goodreads choice awards graphiq imdb imdbpro box office mojo mgm holdings pillpack ring neighbors shopbop souq com twitch woot com zappos zoox cloud computing web services ami amazon aurora beanstalk cloudfront dynamodb ebs ec2 efs elasticache emr glacier glue lambda lightsail mturk neptune product advertising api rds redshift rekognition route 53 s3 sagemaker ses sns simpledb sqs vpc services amazon com china alexa appstore digital game store drive fire os kindle store luna payments prime key prime music prime now prime pantry prime video marketplace music wondery silk wireless devices astro echo show echo buds fire fire hd fire hdx fire tv stick kindle technology 1 click dynamo obidos lumberyard media amazon games amazon publishing breakthrough novel award best books of the year film television amazon studios metro goldwyn mayer kindle direct publishing yes network 15 retail amazon books amazon fresh amazon go treasure truck whole foods market logistics amazon air amazon prime air former 43 things askville amapedia amie street songza cdnow dash buttons dash wand diapers com endless com fire phone lexcycle liquavista livingsocial lovefilm mobipocket planetall reflexive entertainment sellaband shelfari tenmarks withoutabox other amazon light asin community banana stand criticism 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