Bezos: A9 syndicates search

Summary: At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference today, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced A9's OpenSearch, which he hopes will to do for search what RSS has done for content. OpenSearch lets users add searchable columns to the A9 search application and syndicate them via a few extensions to RSS.

By Dan Farber for Between the Lines | March 15, 2005 -- 14:18 GMT (06:18 PST)

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At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference today, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced A9's OpenSearch, which he hopes will to do for search what RSS has done for content. OpenSearch lets users add searchable columns to the A9 search application and syndicate them via a few extensions to RSS. pod

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Ya-AWN!

Until metadata is added VOLUNTARILLY to all web data BY HUMANS, searching will never get much better.

Roger Ramjet

16 March, 2005 05:30

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