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Amazon A9 a shadow of its former self
Says the AP: "Amazon.com Inc.'s A9 search engine has dropped some of its most widely touted features, including the ability to remember everything a user has ever searched for and a service that showed detailed, street-level images of major cities." Can it be true? It can, and it is. Amazon yanked the features from the search engine on Friday. Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener explained the features' disappearance by saying the company is "shifting its priorities to areas where it can provide the greatest benefit for customers." Awhile back A9 dumped Google search results for Microsoft Live.com and is currently #39 in search engine market share. Amazon says it's still hanging onto customers' search histories and all of those street-level photos, but won't say when or how they'll be used in the future.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
