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Internet retail giant Amazon introduced a new feature
to an old service this week when it launched A9.com Yellow Pages -- a guide
to local businesses complete with photographs.
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Amazon A9 takes It To the Streets (August 16, 2005 - CNET News) maps in a new search service that offers virtual tours of two dozen U.S. cities.
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The new service from the Seattle-based Amazon.com, developed by its
wholly owned search subsidiary A9, compiled 20 million photos of businesses
in 10 major United States cities over a four month period, and now say they
plan on adding more.
Using SUVs loaded with high-tech imaging gear, A9 sent drivers to 10
cities, covering "tens of thousands of miles," to map the streets and
capture exterior images of local businesses.
"It took integrated GPS receivers, digital cameras, sophisticated
geocoding software and a lot of driving," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO,
in a statement. "But 20 million curb-side photographs later,
A9.com Yellow Pages lets you see where you are going before you get there."
Amazon Web Services Blog: January 2005::
Alexa Web Search about Amazon and A9 in his article Amazon and A9 re-remix the virtual and physical design a new language but give it the same name.
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Users can find listings at A9.com or by using the A9 search field on
Amazon.com's home page.
The list of returns includes an interactive map that provides business
locations. Clicking on a business takes users to a page that provides
detailed information of the business. There is also special Click-to-Call
feature that allows users to call the business by clicking a button. With
the click the technology phones the user and the business at the same time.
Google Blockview Emad Fanous::
the street as with Amazons A9 product but it does give you a nice perspective of the street. (the same way you would in those real estate virtual tours)
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View Google Maps & MSN Virtual Earth Side-By-Side on a cool tool that lets you Amazon.coms A9 has joined other web engines in offering access to an online
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The site can also be searched by keyword, product category or business
name. Photos of businesses were taken at street level, a feature that allows
viewers to take a "virtual walk" up and down the block to see other
restaurants, offices and shops.
Other Internet search companies, such as Google,
Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, have already
launched similar local search services in an effort to increase advertising
revenues, but haven't used images to the extent that A9.com has produced.
Chris Winfield, president of search engine marketing firm 10E20, said
Amazon is hoping the move will help it compete with major search engines.
"Online yellow pages are big business and also becoming a very
competitive landscape as we have seen with the recent consolidations," he
said. "Whoever emerges as the dominant player... will control a very
lucrative market where we see more and more revenues going towards."
Winfield said the Block View enhancement from A9 gives people a reason to use A9
above other products.
"This is the first time that I have been seriously impressed with A9, and
see it as being a possible major player," he said. "When it first debuted it
had some cool features, but the core of it was built on Google's technologies,
and none of the features were impressive enough to make someone want to
change from Google or Yahoo in my opinion."
So far the photos are limited to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston,
San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, Seattle and Portland, Ore. The
company said it had plans to expand to others cities.
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