Amazon and Google
Word has just gotten out in the blogosphere about Amazon.com's A9 search engine. This, and my recent rediscovery of Alexa has got me thinking a lot about the similarities and differences between Amazon.com and Google and also synergies both inter-company and intra-company.
Random Thoughts:
- The A9 toolbar has a "diary" feature for making notes about pages. Is this the beginning of Amazon.com's blogging story?
- Will GMail somehow be tied to Orkut at some stage?
- What if Amazon.com expanded Amazon Friends to be a full-blown social network?
- Why doesn't Amazon.com do a music version of IMDb?
Amazon and Google are two of my favourite companies. It will be fascinating to see what happens over the next few years.
UPDATE (2004/04/16): Found (via Scoble) an interesting Amazon what-if: Amazoning the News.
Created: April 15, 2004
Last Modified: Feb. 8, 2005
Author: James Tauber
Last Modified: Feb. 8, 2005
Author: James Tauber