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Re:DDG founder says Google's phone, manufacturing partnershi... by the_arun on Friday November 24, 2023 @08:23AM (#38403715)
Not sure why Amazon & Apple don’t have search engines of their own. Don’t they have this infra?
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Re:DDG founder says Google's phone, manufacturing partnershi... by vitus on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:08AM (#38404083)
Amazon used to have a separate web search product, but they shuttered that effort a while ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal

Back in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060416033344/http://a9.com/-/h...

Since then, they've doubled down on product search for amazon.com.

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