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Tuesday, August 16. 2005

A9 Relaunch

The headlines say there’s a new mapping service online, (“Amazon.com Unveils Photo-Mapping Service”) but it’s really an updated version of Amazon’s A9 with more storefront/block photos. The maps are by MapQuest (nice to hear from you guys!) It’s certainly easier to navigate (and find) the site than it was when hidden within A9. Still, it may be too little too late as hackers continue to pummel Google Maps.


Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 07:58 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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A9 Adds Maps
A9, Amazon's search engine, has for a while had street-level photos as a feature of its local search service ("Yellow Pages"), at least for a few U.S. cities. They've now added maps -- from MapQuest, no less: you can view...
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Adena:
The A9 mapping service has been available for about a month. See:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050816-102528

What is new today is online imagery for 4 new areas.
#1 Gary Price (Link) on 2005-08-16 16:05 (Reply)

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