p2pnet.net News:- Guess what? Amazon is trying out a mapping service meant to display street-level photos of the city blocks just like AOL, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft.

A9 is counting on an index of 35 million photographs spanning the neighborhoods of 22 U.S. cities to distinguish its mapping service from the rest of the pack, says BusinessWeek Online, going on:

The Palo Alto-based search engine first began to post street-level photographs of specific addresses earlier this year as part of its Yellow Pages listings.

The new service extends that feature by posting photographs of entire city blocks alongside a traditional map showing a grid of streets.

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BusinessWeek Online – Amazon.com unveils photo-mapping service, August 16, 2005

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