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title: "A9.com: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "com was a subsidiary of Amazon that developed search engine and search advertising technology. A9 was based in Palo Alto, California, with teams in Seattle, Bangalore, Beijing, Dublin, Iași, Munich and Tokyo."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-a9-com
type: Organization
wikidata: Q280457
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
website: http://a9.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# A9.com

> com was a subsidiary of Amazon that developed search engine and search advertising technology. A9 was based in Palo Alto, California, with teams in Seattle, Bangalore, Beijing, Dublin, Iași, Munich and Tokyo.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-a9-com

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Founded: 2004-01-01
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: http://a9.com/
- Also known as: A9 search engine, Block View, BlockView

## Key people

- Udi Manber, founder (Israeli computer scientist)

## Ownership

Parent: [Amazon](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-amazon.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on A9.com, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-a9-com#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q280457, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com

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