Google vs. Amazon A9
Posted: April 29th, 2004 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Internet | No Comments »The search engines war is about to begin. Amazon is building up A9, still in beta, but with a lot of good features.
MSN and Yahoo are aproaching this market by buying companies that work with search engine technology.
Lets see where this leds to. A moment ago all major web portals used Google powered search, now they want to compete. It seems they learned the “how to make profit from websearches” lesson from Google. A good review on this subject can be found here.
For the geek ones interested in Google hacking i suggest you read this book: O´Reilly - Google Hacks 2003. Please note that you should buy the book if it is useful to you.
In the news: Spain id dropping the vat tax on books and music from 16% to 4%! I wish Durão Barroso (Portugal´s Prime Minister) would follow our neighbour´s example..
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