also @ TechSpot: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Review

› ›

Amazon Yellow Pages from your PC

By Derek Sooman

On January 27, 2005, 8:31 PM

A new interactive Yellow Pages site, which will be housed at the home of Amazon subsidiary A9.com, will be launched by Amazon soon, providing shoppers with the ability to see a store's neighbourhood before venturing out into a potentially rundown city street corner.

But the A9.com Yellow Pages goes beyond typical online Yellow Pages sites with the incorporation of location-specific video images. This would allow a visitor to see a restaurant listing and to be able to pan a series of images to see buildings on the left and on the right, which is part of a feature called Block View.

The site will enable users to look at the streets, "walk around", and examine parking and so forth - all from their computer screens. All of this, of course, takes a great deal of effort.

"It took integrated GPS receivers, digital cameras, sophisticated geocoding software and a lot of driving." - Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.

No tags on this story

Post a comment

Post a new comment

Social Login & Guest Posting TechSpot Members
Login here or sign up for free,
it takes about a minute.
Get complete access to the TechSpot community. Join thousands of technology enthusiasts that contribute and share knowledge in our forum. Get a private inbox, upload your own photo gallery and more.
TechSpot on:

Most Popular

Trending Featured
More Trending Topics

Featured on Routers

Downloads and Drivers

Downloads   Drivers  

KiTTY 0.62.2.3

mIRC 7.32

Actual Bookmarks 1.2

World of Warcraft Patch 5.3.0

Funny Photo Maker 2.4.1

More Downloads

Latest Discussion

GTX 660 TI VS GTX 660 8 replies on Audio and Video

What is the best graphics card my computer can handle? 6 replies on Audio and Video

The average life of a GPU 17 replies on Audio and Video

Graphics Card Question 9 replies on Audio and Video

Does anyone have experience with iolo System Mechanic? Words of advice? 11 replies on Software Apps

More Recent Discussion

Subscribe to TechSpot

Get free exclusive content, learn about new features and breaking tech news.