A9 moves to Windows Live

I’ve been using A9 as my default search engine for more than a year now and I’ve been perfectly happy with the results. (Yes, I started using it because installing the toolbar gets me a small percentage off my Amazon.com purchases, but I’ve kept it because the results are good and it’s flexible, letting me get results from the Web, flickr, and Wikipedia all at once.) This morning I noticed that it’s no longer pulling results from the Google database, it’s now pulling it’s results from Windows Live which is still in beta. (But then again, what isn’t these days?) I don’t know how this will effect results but I’m going to keep an eye on it to see if there’s any noticable differences.

A9 Change

UPDATE (later the same day): It turns out that not everyone has been switched to Windows Live. One of my co-workers still has Google as the default.

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