Amazon to Take on Google? 196
KRck writes "Looks like Amazon is going to jump into the search engine business and try and compete directly with Google, by building a new company A9 which they hope to launch in October."
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What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
It's all just reminiscent of this. [penny-arcade.com]
taxed? (Score:3, Funny)
CB
I wanted to get first post... (Score:3, Funny)
But (Score:5, Funny)
Re:well (Score:3, Funny)
Not against something as holy as Google!
[OT] Did anyone notice the picture? (Score:2, Funny)
Look closely at the OS. WHY did they use Windows 3.1?!?!?
--bhtooefr
A9: Plan 9 from Amazon (Score:1, Funny)
Patents (Score:4, Funny)
Rus
Amazon is known for tricks like... (Score:3, Funny)
I, for one, don't see need for our new Amazoogle overlords.
Amazon is known (at least to me) for tricks like charging frequent customers more.
Re:Speaking of "I'm Feeling Lucky"... (Score:3, Funny)
Search + Personalization? (Score:4, Funny)
"Customers who searched for 'Asian Porn' also searched for: Azn N0rp, Hot Asian Sluts, Azn Porn"
"When searching for 'Barnes and Nobles': Did you mean: Amazon.com?"
I think they're a little late for the "one click searching" patent, however.
They just gotta have all the money. Fuckers (Score:1, Funny)
They're a corporation, after all. This was to be expected.
See, the Corporate Life Cycle has very few stages:
Employees with ideas get together and file paperwork. Corporation comes kicking and screaming from the womb of paper declaring that it is a legal entity, quite often having legal residence in the state of Deleware.
Most Corporations don't evet get past this stage, being a favorite tasty fat prey of The Government, Lawyers, Bigger Corporations, and Software Salesmen. These cute little guys are eaten up by the big bad world and digested. Their employees are either excreted onto the ground, ready to start the proces anew, or absorbed and become part of the Predator.
Those that live get to a happy place where they're scraping by, but still and often these adolescents even play together.
But like all adolescents, they become embittered. Maybe that retail chain with the cute ass started dating the Beefy Sports Franchise with the rich founders, who konws? But it almost always happens. The corporation gets bigger and suddenly develops an attitude problem.
People who could previously talk honestly with each other so things get done are now sending notes about each other to the new secretary with the big titties and then leaking to the rest of the company the other guy is trying to get into her pants - he doesnt deserve a raise! People get fired over giving honest opinions that could get our now more worldly corporation sued, and goddamnit its got hundreds of little shareholder mouths to feed.
"Waitaminute," the Corporation realises, "I'm not making ALL THE MONEY!
GODDAMNIT!"
"But Corporation, you are doing fine right now. You make money and pey people and maybe svsn save a lit-"
"SHUT UP! Fuck You! You're Fired!
MUST.
HAVE.
ALL.
THE.
MONEY!
NO OTHER CORPORATION CAN EXIST!
Can I buy those guys? What? NO? You're fired, too!
I dont fucking care who we have to bribe, fuck, or fuck over! I want THEIR BUSINESS!
WAAAAAAH! I WANT ALL THE MONEY!!!!! WAAAAAAH!!!!"
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Okay, so I think corporations suck, but this is what they do.
None of us should be surprised that an online retailer has suddenly decided that a mostly unrelated business is mow a mortal enemy to be competed with.
fuckers. I hope this causes them to fold in half.