Amazon's A9 and Alexa appear to have switched from using Google to power their web search to using Microsoft's Windows Live Search (aka MSN Search).
I wonder if this is a sign of increasing collaboration between the two Seattle area companies.
[via Google Operating System, John Battelle, Nicholas Carr, and Threadwatch]
Update: Seattle PI reporter Todd Bishop confirms the story.
Update: MSN Search PM Erik Selberg says, "It's a step towards more collaboration between Amazon and Microsoft. It's painfully clear to everyone that the power of Google AdWords and AdSense are on a collision course for Amazon and eBay .... [Google] is a huge threat to Amazon's business."
Update: Danny Sullivan points out that Google ads also have been removed.
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I still get: "Web Results by Google" on A9
That's strange. It looks like they switched back.
I did notice an outage (timeouts) and slowness for A9 web searches around 2:12pm today (Sunday, April 30). Not sure, but perhaps they switched back because of problems with the transition.
I would guess that any switch back to Google is temporary though.
It appears it is back to Windows Live Search on A9 again. The search I just did showed "Powered by Windows Live Search".
Windows Live Search. What a "cool name"! Why am I not excited?
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