A9 - Search by Amazon

Checkout the new search site by Amazon - www.a9.com I think its going to give google a run for its money..what do you think?? Some of the features on A9 are pretty cool..First of all - it saves all the searches in the form of a history which gives you quicker access to what you've already search instead of trying to remember each search you make..Also, you can just drag the links from the search results page itself (yes - drag and drop :)) and drop it into the bookmarks frame..The best part - you can access the history and bookmarks from any computer ! Atleast I find that really useful - many a time I'm searching something say at work and find something really useful after a long hard search which I'd want to access from home for a further look only to realize that I've forgotten the search keywords I used and all the links that I went through to get to that useful website :-( I could email the link to myself but as you might've already guessed I'm awfully lazy and I wouldn't want to work for something any more than the task rightfully deserves - it just doesn't seem right to be emailing myself everytime I want to use a bookmark that I saved at work from home or vice versa. Anyway..looks like we're drifting away from the subject of this blogpost :-) Its got a few other features such as Discovery (something similar to google's adsense but this works more generically rather than targeting commercial websites), Diary (take down notes for a particular website and save it with the website - haven't used this feature though) and your standard toolbar more or less like google's. I love the column feature too - you can view different results/views in columns - gives you access to more information on a single page. Overall, I really like A9. Note one thing - the search engine behind the scenes (for web and images) is google itself ! http://a9.com/-/company/whatsCool.jsp
I had gotten so used to google that I thought there could be no search engine so good that could make me move away from google...but looks like I could be way off the mark :)