Amazon 's A9
Amazon's A9 Search as We Knew It: Dead! There's only one toolbar I install religiously on every browser on every PC I use: Amazon's A9 Toolbar, which gives me handy access not only to the A9 search engine but also to a set of personal bookmarks and a record of my searches which I can get to from any PC. For the past couple of years, all this has been as much a part of my computing experience as Firefox. And by searching on A9, I've been eligible for a 1.57% discount on Amazon purchases--tiny, I know, but hey, it's been free money and one more reason to shop at Amazon. A9 has been responsible for some other inventive search-related stuff, too, such as the way its maps feature sported BlockView photographs of businesses , taken by trucks that roamed the streets of major cities snapping pictures as they went. Last week, I made a purchase at Amazon and noticed that it wasn't offering me my usual 1.57% kickback--I noticed its absence but didn't gi
