April 14, 2004
A9 knows what's good for you
Amazon has pulled the wraps off of their new search service, A9. It's built on top of Google, but is enhanced in a variety of ways. John Battelle has written a good article about it.
But what is interesting about it to me is that it apparently has "Safe Search" turned on . . . with no obvious way to turn it off. It doesn't use your Google preferences. Signing in doesn't provide an obvious way of setting your level of safety. Is lowest-common-denominator search the wave of the future?
(Via Boing Boing.)
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