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a9 Search Engine adds Yellow Pages
Amazon's search engine a9 has just added a pretty slick yellow pages directory.
One of the new features a9 yellow pages offers is something they call block view - they basically strapped a camera to a car and drove around Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, New York City (Manhattan), Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco and the Bay Area taking pictures of storefronts. So when you search in one of those areas you also get a picture of the storefront along with your results.
But even if you don't live in a metropolitan area, there is a handy mapquest map with the results annotated on it.
There is a good writeup on how they did it, along with some videos.
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Pete's company Foundeo Inc. builds products for web developers and provides consulting services.
In 2003 Pete published the ColdFusion MX Developers Cookbook with SAMs Publishing.
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