A9.com’s CEO, Jeff Bezos’ vision on bringing together many technologies to help hone in on best possible way to search web for exact and detailed information makes A9.com a strong competitor in new search engine marketplace.

Some of robust features available with A9.com are:

- The ability to store a detailed search history to pull information from previous queries. Users can even modify their history files to get results they are looking for.

- A diary function that allows user to record and cross-reference information about any web page visited. This feature is integrated with A9.com toolbar.

- Drag and drop a URL by book marking

- Discover feature that displays information that user might be interested as well.

As of September 2004, this product is still in Beta testing.

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