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a9
Brought to you by Amazon, A9 (a9.com) ofers several diferent types of
searches, including Web, Images, Reference, Movies, and Books. he Web
search results are provided by Google, massaged a bit by Amazon and Alexa
(a service that provides traic and popularity information about Web sites).
Check out the topic search with narrow queries. You'll get “inside the topic”
results featuring book passages containing your search query ( Figure 7.6 ).
Figure 7.6 Using a9 you can do a keyword search and get results from within topics.
No RSS feeds or e-mail alerts, unfortunately, so you have to monitor
result pages.
Once thing you'll notice when you visit A9 is a series of checkboxes that lets
you apply other resources to the search results—resources like reference,
news, yellow pages, and more ( Figure 7.7 ).