A9, a quick benchmark
A9, amazons new search service, went public beta recently. I first found out about it via kottke, but almost anyone in the blogosphere has chimed in by now. Apparently the big thing is that amazon broke the news via blogger john battelle rather than traditional big media.
So i thought i’ll try the ultimate personal search engine benchmark- how well do i fair in an ego-search? - and here’s the result: a search for “christoph wimmer” on google returns my site as the sixth result, the same search on a9 yields the same result. Actually the first 10 results on both search engines are exactly the same. Btw, in case you wonder, yahoo made third far off with my site not even in the top twenty. I’ll stick with google for the moment, old habits are hard to break anyway…