Amazon.com Drops Search Engine Features

October 2, 2006

(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.

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