A9.com Search Integration
Jeff Bezos rolled out a new feature for Amazon’s A9.com at the ETech conference today. Using a simple extension to RSS, any search tool can be plugged in to the A9 search.
I have already done this integration, and you can now see the results of a Syndic8 feed search as another column on the A9 home page!
To see this in action:
- Visit a9.com.
- Click on the link titled “Add Columns to your Search Results”:
- Scroll down until you find “Syndic8 RSS & Atom Feed Search”; it looks like this:
<img src="http://images.jeff-barr.com/a9_s8.gif" alt="" style=border:1px dashed gray;margin:8px;" /> - Press the Add button.
- Return to the main page and do a search. Here’s the result column after a search for chocolate:
