Palo Alto, CA - November 1, 2004 - A9.com, Inc. (www.a9.com), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), today released the A9 Toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. A9.com users who prefer Mozilla Firefox for browsing the Web can now take advantage of A9.com's full set of innovative search technologies such as Bookmarks, Site History, A9 Lists and the A9 Diary, which are available through the A9 Toolbar. The A9 Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox can be downloaded in two minutes by clicking on "toolbar" on the A9.com home page and can run on Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems.

"Offering the A9 Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox was among the most requested features we received from users since we launched A9.com a month ago," said A9.com CEO Udi Manber. "We are pleased to answer their feedback with this release and make it possible for millions more people to access the full power of A9.com to discover and manage information."

A9.com helps users discover information from many different sources, manage and organize their search results, and remember what they have done in the past. The site includes several innovative search technologies, although not all are available without downloading and running the A9 Toolbar. Using the A9 Toolbar allows users to access the following features:

 

  • Search and Site History - view and edit past search results and sites visited.
  • A9 Diary - record, save and references notes about any Web page.
  • Bookmarks - save favorite web sites and access them from any computer.
  • Lists - browse search results or other lists of links with a single click.
  • A9 Search - enter search queries from any Web page.

"We are thrilled that A9.com has created a toolbar for the Firefox browser to enhance the user experience for A9.com customers," said Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. "This shows the growing popularity of Firefox among Amazon.com and A9.com users, and demonstrates the power of developing on the Mozilla platform."

More than 7 million copies of the Firefox Preview Release has been downloaded from the Mozilla site at www.mozilla.org since September. The Mozilla Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project.

For more information or to download the A9 Toolbar visit http://toolbar.a9.com.

About A9.com, Inc.

A9.com, Inc., a separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, opened its Palo Alto, California office in October 2003 to research and build innovative search technologies. Launched in September 2004, the A9.com site offers users search results from five powerful information sources, which are presented through convenient selectable and adjustable columns: Web and image search provided by Google, text from hundreds of thousands of book titles from Amazon.com's Search Inside The Book®, movie information from the Internet Movie Database, and reference information (encyclopedia, dictionary, etc.) through GuruNet.com. Additionally, A9.com is a search engine with a memory as it returns results from the user's information, so with every search, users will see results from their own history, bookmarks, and diary.

About Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as health and personal care, jewelry and watches, gourmet food, sports and outdoors, apparel and accessories, books, music, DVDs, electronics and office, toys and baby, and home and garden.

Amazon.com and its affiliates operate seven Web sites: www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.ca, and www.joyo.com.

As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Forward Looking Statement

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to potential future losses, significant amount of indebtedness, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions, and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, international expansion, consumer trends, inventory, limited operating history, government regulation and taxation, fraud, and new business areas. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, and all subsequent filings.

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