A9 Examined

A9 -- My personal search technology just got streamlined because I discovered I can locate many of my important things directly off the address bar with A9, the newest thing added to the Amazon aresenal.

It's been helpful to me in the classroom because many of my lecture notes now appear directly in the first results served up by A9 when typed in as part of a web address. So when students want to read the lecture about "developing watch lists" they can find it by using full stop punctuation in this way: a9.com/developing.watch.lists and they can find it straight away. NOTE: Use the periods between the words to force an "exact phrase look-up. This functionality means I can put items online, give them a prominent Five Word Google Identity, and pass them along as memes. Anyone with a mobile device could find them and pull them down.

If the material is sensitive, I can invoke password controls at the file or directory level. If I want to charge for the information, I can put a cost wall between the A9/Google result and the actual material.

For the moment, it's exciting to see the way A9 is using memes in the manner it serves its results. I hope both Amazon and Google are able to continue working together with their technologies because the current relationship has improved the third level revision process for students taking my courses at Tipperary Institute.

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Media Studies Classroom -- where learning multimedia happens on every page.
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