A9 search
holy crap.
robin wrote up a li’l bit about amazon’s A9 search which now has yellow-pages functionality. as he said “Whatever. Big deal.”
however, in 10 metro areas, they have photographed the city and you can look up a business and see the picture of that business, plus “walk down the street” looking at the businesses up and down that same street.
For example, i’d like to know where lava lounge is.
2226 2nd Ave, cool, here’s a map, and look, you can see what it looks like. then take a walk up the street, passing Shorty’s, Tula’s jazz club and restaurant, the Crocodile Cafe on the corner, then keep going a few blocks till you get to the moore theater.
Hey, lets go to Cap Hill, Broadway Grill is pretty tasty. A few doors down is the Red Light, and just past the BofA you’ve got Noah’s New York Bagels.
They don’t have that many streets photographed yet, but it’s a pretty good amount, and a lot of the more popular areas are done.
crazy stuff.