{"id":4288,"date":"2004-09-16T21:50:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2004-09-16T21:50:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T21:50:42","slug":"a9_bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"A9 Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with A9 a little bit lately, it is kind of nifty, but nothing that really made me go WOW.  Though, someone did find out something interesting about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpwilson.com\/uccu\/archives\/000322.html\">Discount at Amazon for using A9.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.a9.com\/\">A9<\/a> is the new search engine from Amazon and so far it seems good enough to use.  It&#8217;s supposed to have all kinds of wizbang features, which it seems to.  One important thing is that it&#8217;s hooked into amazon&#8217;s cookie system so it does know who you are and keep track of your searches.  (blah blah big brother yadda evil corporate, DOWN liberal DOWN *smack* back in your cage.)<\/p>\n<p>If you can get over that for 5 minutes and use it, then go to amazon, you&#8217;ll notice this little &#8220;pi\/2 discount&#8221; thingie.  I clicked on it and, being a good little advertising target monkey, I&#8217;ll pass the resulting blurb on&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i> since you&#8217;ve been using A9.com recently, virtually everything at Amazon.com is automatically an additional &#960;\/2% (1.57%) off for you. Collecting this discount is zero effort on your part. It will be applied automatically at checkout (it will happen whether you use the shopping cart or our 1-Click Shopping&reg;). You don&#8217;t need to do anything to get this discount except keep using A9.com as your regular search engine.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So there ya have it. [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpwilson.com\/uccu\/\">The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I just checked on Amazon and found that I had the same link there now.  Pretty keen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount at Amazon for using A9.com A9 is the new search engine from Amazon and so far it seems good enough to use&#8230;.  (blah blah big brother yadda evil corporate, DOWN liberal DOWN *smack* back in your cage.)If you can get over that for 5 minutes and use it, then go to amazon, you&#8217;ll notice this little &#8220;pi\/2 discount&#8221; thingie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,122,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-random-stuff","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}